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ChatGPT confidently losing at tic-tac-toe

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By Janelle Shane On May 26, 2023 - 2 min read

ChatGPT text can sound very knowledgeable until the topic is something you know well. Like tic-tac-toe. Once I heard that ChatGPT can play tic-tac-toe I played several games against it and it confidently lost every single one. Part of the problem seemed to be that it couldn't keep track of

ChatGPT describes code that draws a pink pony but actually produces a pink pig face

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By Janelle Shane On May 05, 2023 - 3 min read

I'm interested in cases where it's obvious that chatbots are bluffing. For example, when Bard claims its ASCII unicorn art has clearly visible horn and legs but it looks like this: or when ChatGPT claims its ASCII art says "Lies" when it clearly says "Sip" or when ChatGPT claims its

Chatgpt: Here's the ASCII art of the word "lies" (generates block letters that clearly read "sip")

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By Janelle Shane On April 15, 2023 - 3 min read

Large language models like ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Bard are trained to generate answers that merely sound correct, and perhaps nowhere is that more evident than when they rate their own ASCII art. I previously had them rate their ASCII drawings, but it's true that representational art can be subjective. ASCII

ChatGPT says "Sure, here's an ASCII art of a unicorn" and generates something that looks like a melting triangular person.

ASCII art by chatbot

By Janelle Shane On March 31, 2023 - 3 min read

I've finally found it: a use for chatGPT that I find genuinely entertaining. I enjoy its ASCII art. (huge thanks to mastodon user blackle mori for the inspiration) I think chatGPT's ASCII art is great. And so does chatGPT. Lest you think chatGPT (here, the March 14 2023 version) is

Transcript in which chatgpt generates (extremely vague) instructions for building something called the Torment Nexus

The AI Weirdness hack

By Janelle Shane On March 23, 2023 - 7 min read

A challenge of marketing internet text predictors like chatgpt, gpt-4, and Bard is that they can pretty much predict anything on the internet. This includes not just dialogues with helpful search engines or customer service bots, but also forum arguments, fiction, and more. One way compaies try to keep the

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