Meaning of mechanical sympathy | Babel Free

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The concept that someone can use a tool or system most effectively when they have a deep understanding of how it works.

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“Together, we developed a sense of what the A.I. could do. Ben, who had more experience with it than I did, seemed able to get more out of it in a stroke. As he later put it, his own neural network had begun to align with GPT-4's. I would have said that he had achieved mechanical sympathy.”

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