The world learns robots can write poems
The first wave of ChatGPT news centered around some incredulous marveling at the AI’s capabilities. People signed up for OpenAI accounts and jumped in to ask the language model to do… something. And for anyone who’d never been exposed to this kind of technology, it truly was astonishing.
ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology where you see a glimmer of how everything is going to be different going forward.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) December 3, 2022
People took to the internet to show off the weirdest and most wonderful things they’d convinced the AI to do. One of the more beloved examples came in a viral tweet where a user asked the AI to write a biblical verse in the style of the King James bible explaining how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR. It wasn’t exactly clear how tools like ChatGPT might be useful. But it was clear these Generative Pre-Trained Transformers were going to be, well…transformative.
I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this. pic.twitter.com/yjlY72eZ0m
— Thomas H. Ptacek (@tqbf) December 2, 2022
