With each new generation of Generative AI (GenAI) technology, the big tech businesses behind it will tout the new competencies and capabilities they have baked into their models, and users playing with it will likely have, at some point, a common response: how did it know how to do that? Whether it’s offering nuanced answers about choosing between local restaurants or explaining complicated concepts that human experts would be hard-pressed to define, a big part of the current excitement for GenAI lies in its (sometimes spooky) ability to know.
