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Nice article. I have been experimenting with ChatGPT. Some things have been very good, some fair, and some awful. As you may know, my book reviews are published on Substack. After I finish a review I ask Substack to write a review of the book. It disclaims knowledge of books published in 2022-23. But for earlier books it will write a review. They are terrible. In many cases ChatGPT just makes up stuff like inventing characters and plots.

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Thanks. The making stuff up is right. I asked it for examples of articles that I wrote and it just made up article titles that nobody ever actually wrote!

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That was fascinating. It feels as though Chatgpt has been taught that any answer is better than no answer.

I kept waiting for you to ask it why it said one thing then contradicted itself in the next answer although I suspect that, had you done so, it would have informed you about the impending failure of the AE35 unit and you would be off to Mike’s scenario ;)

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Thanks for the good idea! I'll try that when I test other AIs with these same questions.

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Brilliant!

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Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for your support.

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"Open the pod bay doors, GPT."

"I'm sorry, David. I'm afraid I can't do that."

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