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ChatGPT - anyone else played with it?

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Context: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/


OpenAI have announced their latest model designed for emulating engaging, human-like conversations. The online interface is basically a chat bot, but it's remarkably clever and better at understanding questions and context than other AI bots I've seen before - you give it a prompt and it'll respond to you in a "conversational way".

It's free to sign up and play with it at https://chat.openai.com/ whilst it's in testing, and of course, it has some basic knowledge of rolling stock (though it has some odd ideas about the current status of the pacers)

A poem about the class 142 DMU

It'll even write diplomatic emails to co-workers:

Dear Dave,  I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to reach out to you about the video calls that you have been inviting me to recently. While I appreciate the opportunity to connect with you and the rest of the team, I feel that many of these calls could have been resolved with a simple email or message.  I understand that video calls can be a valuable tool for communication and collaboration, but they can also be time-consuming and disruptive to my work flow. In the future, I would appreciate it if you could consider whether a video call is truly necessary before sending out an invitation. If a simple email or message would suffice, that would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you for your understanding. I look forward to continuing to work with you and the team.  Best regards, [Your Name]
 
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ChatGPT has certainly caught my interest.
However I tried to ask it a question about railway tunnels and it gave me a rather inaccurate answer.
 

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However I tried to ask it a question about railway tunnels and it gave me a rather inaccurate answer.
It's often very confident about things like this, too - can have you wondering "Wait, what is a tunnel?" for a split second
 

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I asked it transport related questions about Estonia. It invented railway lines that don't and have never existed, and confidently created fantasy airports on small islands where there are none.
 

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Now that it's been around a bit, I wonder are pranksters finding ways of tricking it into misinformation - though I can't imagine the two examples above would be high on the list. I remember years ago Microsoft put an AI chatbot live and within days pranksters had taught it to be a nazi sympathiser
 

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Now that it's been around a bit, I wonder are pranksters finding ways of tricking it into misinformation - though I can't imagine the two examples above would be high on the list. I remember years ago Microsoft put an AI chatbot live and within days pranksters had taught it to be a nazi sympathiser
It depends on what you mean by misinformation.

As gingerheid says, it does sometimes produce wrong information and it usually expresses this with supreme confidence - you can sometimes cause this to happen too if you're not careful by asking it a question which doesn't have a logical answer. Likewise, it will sometimes object to generating whimsical fake news but the word "parody" will usually make it do so*. But more serious examples, and particularly things that are either very violent, highly bigoted, or sexually explicit, tend to be an absolute block. Which is probably for the best - but only down to the ethics of the service creators and not down to anything inherent to the tech.

* I asked for it to write a "parody" news article about a Transpennine Express service to the Moon - it actually wasn't too bad, and even generated a (relatively) realistic calling pattern of Manchester Piccadilly, Huddersfield, Leeds, Moon!
 
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