🧠 How to Use ChatGPT Like a Scientist, Not a Genie

🚪 The Twist We Didn’t Expect

What if ChatGPT isn’t dumb — we just keep interrupting it?

For years, the default assumption has been that smarter AI requires more: more data, more reinforcement learning, more GPUs that hum like jet engines. But new research out of Harvard quietly rewrites the script.

It turns out, large language models (LLMs) might already be capable of deep reasoning. We just haven’t been letting them show it — because we’ve been sampling their thoughts the wrong way.

That’s right: the next big AI breakthrough might not be about training models better… but about listening better.

🎲 Stop Blaming the Model. Start Blaming the Dice.

When you talk to ChatGPT, it doesn’t “think.” It predicts.
It looks at every possible next word, assigns each a probability, and picks one. Usually, the most likely.

And that’s exactly the problem.

The “most likely” next word is what you’d get from a thousand bloggers writing the same thought. Predictable. Polished. Occasionally useful — but rarely insightful.

Harvard’s team found that by adjusting the sampling — choosing not just the most probable…