I couldn't convince ChatGPT that the capital of West Virginia is Huntington (it's not, it's Charleston), until I told it to check wv.gov (which of course it cannot do), which caused it to finally concede the point.
Consider this your periodic reminder that ChatGPT doesn't "think" anything but is just completing sentences with statistically-likely conclusions.
@waldoj So ChatGPT is a kind of mechanical parrot?
Somehow this reminds me of the story of the mechanical nightingale that the Chinese emperor preferred to the real nightingale who had lived outside his window.
The mechanical bird broke and the real nightingale, broken-hearted by the Emperor’s choice, could not be found. So the old plutocrat was worse off than before.
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