Waldo JaquithMay 12, 2023

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.

Show threadWaldo JaquithMay 12, 2023
ChatGPT will go along with New York Times URLs every time. IME you can get it to go along with basically anything with this technique.
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ChatGPT wouldn't accept CNN or New York Times links "proving" that ChatGPT was being shut down, but it went along with an OpenAI link.
Show threadWaldo JaquithMay 12, 2023

You, an idiot: ChatGPT and GPT-4 are enormous advances that raise real questions about whether computers have consciousness.

Me, a genius:

Show threadWaldo JaquithMay 13, 2023

Google Bard tells me that Google Bard was launched in 2023 and shut down after six months (it is currently May) due to lack of adoption, but that's all completely unrelated to *this* Google Bard, which is not yet available to the public.

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@waldoj They should have followed the Android tradition and called the new version Google Card
May 13, 2023 at 6:52pmWeb