Questions for your robots

Want to write powerful questions for ChatGPT and its counterpart, the humans?

Focus on four things: construct, scope, assumptions, and reduction.

Construct “What”, “How”, and “Tell” are excellent question starters that can help with reflective thinking. “Why”, “Who”, “When” limit our responses.

Scope Ask from the point of view that you must take, be it a stakeholder or your own.

Assumptions In many great questions, there are inherent assumptions, make sure that you know yours and how to use them for benefit.

Reduction Do you want to reduce the output or response that you get? Example: “Tell me about yourself” vs “Tell me your three favourite movies, growing up”

Friendly reminder: answers can be strange, odd, and bad.

Every answer is someone’s interpretation of the truth. A question is a desire to understand that truth. - Darko Vukovic