# GPT-4 is a Reasoning Engine, - Dan Shipper Synced: [[2023_11_30]] 6:03 AM Last Highlighted: [[2023_07_29]] Tags: [[ai]] [[AI]]  This makes me want to build a browser that tracks everything you consume automatically and is able to be the great retriever of your PKM ## Highlights [[2023_07_27]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6az6a4x68r53veakjagza43) > Lowell’s story shows that there are at least two important components to thinking: reasoning and knowledge. Knowledge without reasoning is inert—you can’t do anything with it. But reasoning without knowledge can turn into compelling, confident fabrication [[2023_07_27]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6az6z3ynqn0knyyhrevsp53) > Even though our AI models were trained by reading the whole internet, that training mostly enhances their reasoning abilities not how much they know. And so, the performance of today’s AI models is constrained by their lack of knowledge. [[2023_07_27]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6azj9eknpp1zejjk8bwnkm0) > Knowledge databases are as important to AI progress as foundational models [[2023_07_27]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6azjhczq1y8p9sz4z6tkvby) [[favorite]] > People who organize, store, and catalog their own thinking and reading will have a leg up in an AI-driven world. They can make those resources available to the model and use it to enhance the intelligence and relevance of its responses. [[2023_07_29]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6g059yctst20f7zt71yx858) > People have been saying that data is the new oil for a long time. But I do think, in this case, if you’ve spent a lot of time collecting and curating your own personal set of notes, articles, books, and highlights it’ll be the equivalent of having a topped-off oil drum in your bedroom during an OPEC crisis. [[2023_07_29]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6g061e4jqrh9z89cm3twbtw) > If, instead, you’ve spent a lifetime gathering and curating information that’s important to you, you can customize your AI experience so it’s more useful to you right off the bat. [[2023_07_29]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6g092jy00tt33k6rzyjy0zk) > We don’t pay enough attention to the limits of its knowledge—how much information is locked away, inaccessible to these systems. We also forget how expensive (both in time and in [compute](https://www.techopedia.com/definition/6580/compute)) it is to crawl through information sources and find relevant facts. And finally, we underestimate the difficulty of surfacing relevant pieces of information for the model at the right time.