Clarifying questions if the initial prompt was unclear. I'd love it.

I regularly try to add something along the lines of "please ask clarifying questions if you could only give a generic or partial response otherwise" but so far it has never helped (ChatGPT 4).

?? gpt4 does this for me regularly

I ask AI to produce clarifying questions then answer them.

Can help in not wasting a bunch of time waiting for an answer that missed the mark.

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I think the sibling comment is probably the least attractive reason to have AI ask questions.

I agree, medical history is probably not the sexiest reason to have AI ask questions. I think there are many more reasons; I think the Turing Test is the best metric to evaluate AIs, and current models come nowhere close. When people first meet they ask questions about their background. It would be nice if a model replicated that

> and could direct better ads to me.

Is the least attractive part, by far.

In order for an AI to pass a Turing Test, it would surely ask questions. Think of Ava from Ex Machina. She asked questions to learn more about him

I'm not debating the value of questions. I'm debating the value of feeding it to advertisers, especially since LLMs can infer much deeper insights about a person than a traditional assistant can with its canned capabilities and responses

I get advertisements all the time for conditions that I do not have, and that none of my family members have. If you had a model that asked questions, it could learn my medical history and could direct better ads to me.

In order for AI to understand the world, it would have to ask questions. Understanding humans is key to understanding the world.

Learn from them.