alt Hacker NewsI see the hyperbole is the point, but surely what these machines do is to literally predict? The entire prompt engineering endeavour is to get them to predict better and more precisely. Of course, these are not perfect solutions - they are stochastic after all, just not unpredictably.
Prompt engineering is voodoo. There's no sure way to determine how well these models will respond to a question. Of course, giving additional information may be helpful, but even that is not guaranteed.