Thanks chatGPT.
Coda: I stayed up and wrote the article. I felt motivated and felt like I could write a good article.
@mmasnick based on advice from an AI ….
@mmasnick your statement here is ironic (towards the chatbot), but your article is all business.
@mmasnick now ask it what's the average velocity of an unladen swallow
@kkeller i gave it the actual quote and... I fried it.
@mmasnick LOL Monty Python breaks chatGPT! That is somehow very appropriate. Even Commander Data struggled with humor.

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LOL. Give it another day or so. There will be more material to work with.

@mmasnick This example of #ChatGPT looks like Eliza in reverse. The human asks leading questions and the computer writes back long-winded tangential replies.

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Instead of answering the question, it reframed it for you, which is actually kind of cool.

@mmasnick that will be $240 for the hour, no chatGPT does not take insurance
@mmasnick It sounds so much like a perky waitress. Is it expecting to be tipped?
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I don’t think people will want to go from ”GTS!” To “ChatGPTTS!”
Such a mouthful!

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Everything I've seen from this bot feels like dealing with that one incredibly smarmy person at work that you have to email a couple of times a month but you keep putting it off because ugh.