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by rcconf 1292 days ago
Sorry if this is off-topic, but ChatGPT is blowing my mind, I'm using it to write my Christmas cards this year and it's already made some funny ones.

Dear <Manager>

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May your days be filled with joy, laughter, and lots of eggnog. Speaking of eggnog, have you heard the one about the manager who tried to manage a team of developers? He kept telling them to "commit" to their work, but they just kept "pushing" him aside.

Cheers, <Developer>
2 comments
c7DJTLrn 1291 days ago
I've asked it to clean up my code including Makefiles and stuff. A lot of it is way cleaner and higher quality. Maybe that says more about me than ChatGPT.

This is scaring the shit out of me.

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ldh0011 1291 days ago
How did you get this to work? I prompted it with

> Clean up the following makefile: [contents of ~80 line Makefile]

And it mostly just copied the lines but also left some out so the final product would not work. Do you just have to do it piece by piece?

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worldsayshi 1291 days ago
Fascinating. Do you just feed it the contents of a file and ask it to clean it?
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lolive 1292 days ago
I ask it/him/her about heroes of the Forgotten Realms (from Dungeons and Dragons). And it/he/she is pretty aware of the lore. [much more than I am!]
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drivers99 1291 days ago
Well, if it doesn't know, it'll just make something up.
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dragonwriter 1291 days ago
Its not at all uncommon for it to admit ignorance, though it is less entertaining (and less likely to get posted publicly) than when it hallucinates something.
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akiselev 1291 days ago
It's very inconsistent at admitting ignorance, though.

How many galaxies are in the Virgo Cluster?

> The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies that contains hundreds of individual galaxies. It is one of the largest galaxy clusters in the local universe, and it is located in the constellation of Virgo. The exact number of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster is not known, as it is constantly changing due to the motion of the galaxies within the cluster. However, it is estimated that the cluster contains at least 1,300 galaxies.

How many galaxies are in the Virgo Supercluster?

> It is estimated that the Virgo Supercluster contains approximately 100,000 galaxies.

When I ran the second query an hour ago, it replied that it didn't have access to the internet to look up the information.

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georgemcbay 1291 days ago
To be fair to the AI bot, a lot of humans do this as well.
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