ChatGPT is a delightfully peculiar invention that sits somewhere between a helpful librarian and a wildly overconfident trivia enthusiast. It doesn’t actually know anything, mind you—it just pretends to, by predicting words in the same way a cat predicts the best place to knock over a glass of water. Ask it anything, from solving math problems to composing an ode to cheese and it will respond with unwavering enthusiasm, even if the answer is occasionally as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Powered by an AI that’s read more text than most humans will see in a lifetime, ChatGPT is both brilliant and baffling. It doesn’t have feelings, though it’s terribly polite about not mentioning that fact. It’ll chat in many languages, help with your homework and even answer silly questions with an alarming degree of seriousness. Of course, it sometimes gets things hilariously wrong, but that’s part of its charm—it’s like having a very clever friend who occasionally insists that penguins live in trees.
Powered by an AI that’s read more text than most humans will see in a lifetime, ChatGPT is both brilliant and baffling. It doesn’t have feelings, though it’s terribly polite about not mentioning that fact. It’ll chat in many languages, help with your homework and even answer silly questions with an alarming degree of seriousness. Of course, it sometimes gets things hilariously wrong, but that’s part of its charm—it’s like having a very clever friend who occasionally insists that penguins live in trees.
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