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by TaylorAlexander 1842 days ago
I was curious if it knew anything about me (slim chances) and it does not seem to. It generated a thorough bio that has nothing to do with me. However it’s pretty funny. The prompt is in quotes and the output follows:

“Taylor Alexander is a robotics engineer and “

one of the founders of Transcend, a research lab. Alexander specializes in both manufacturing and consumer applications of robotics. He is also a former roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied robotics and human-computer interaction. In that capacity, he worked on a research program funded by DARPA to design a mobile manipulator for soldiers.

The team tested the robotic arm in a variety of physical simulations for landing, handling, and carrying heavy loads like a military bomb. They tested the design on both operating systems—Linux and Windows.

“We built this to test the machine on the two dominant operating systems that we thought might be useful in the future,” says Alexander. “But it actually worked on everything. We saw the same kind of accuracy in the process on all of the different operating systems.”

The team decided to make the arm multi-platform after seeing the arm working so well on Linux and Windows. They were very impressed with the portability. The arm was light enough to pick up a relatively heavy base and, with just a slight rotation, it could hold the base up in the air. The weight didn’t matter to the arm at all.

Since the arm works on Linux, the