[Veen]

Although, in this case, it looks like they just give ChatGPT an initial prompt telling it to act like a $religion professor.

[eternalban]

I just looked at the wikipage for zero-shot learning and it wasn't very clear about why it is "zero". The paper for GPT-3 however is quite clear:

"(c) “zero-shot” learning, where no demonstrations are allowed and only an instruction in natural language is given to the model" [page 5 of pdf]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf