Can’t: Remember Its Own Name
I’ve talked with ChatGPT many times now, and it occasionally lapses into a state of senility in which it doesn’t remember who it is or what we’re talking about. I will ask it something like, “Hey, ChatGPT, how do you think AI chatbots like yourself will impact the publishing industry in the years to come?” and it starts yammering on about how it “doesn’t know anything about a ChatGPT.” Sorta like a cross between a mafioso pleading the fifth and your geriatric uncle trying to remember whether he killed a guy in Korea or not, ChatGPT occasionally just can’t bring itself to answer your question. Algorithm malfunction or cagey evasiveness? You decide…
