Bob Kerns: Thinking

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2023-11-22

ChatGPT Doesn't Know It Cannot Follow Directions

by Bob Kerns

A while back, I poked at ChatGPT 3.5, asking it:

Paint me a picture of a cat with a trumpet in the style of Salvador Dali.

It did not go well.

It generated some nice images, but it helpfully hallucinated capabilities it did not actually posess.

See the interaction here.