# Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/generative-artificial-intelligence-large-language-models-and-image-synthesis/2383
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** chatgpt, image-synthesis, large-language-model, artificial-intelligence, generative-transformer
**Created:** [2 December 2022 16:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/generative-artificial-intelligence-large-language-models-and-image-synthesis/2383 "2022-12-02T16:12:04Z")
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### Author: ![johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/johnwalker/32/17415_2.png) [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)
#### Post date: [3 December 2022 12:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/generative-artificial-intelligence-large-language-models-and-image-synthesis/2383/12 "2022-12-03T12:22:23Z")

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I decided to challenge ChatGPT to replicate my intellectual triumph of yore, writing a [COBOL program that rhymed](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/969) and had consistent metre.

And here we go…

 ![gptchat10](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/9/90642f2279f35eadd026ec203833f3352cf4f466.png)

But it _doesn’t_ rhyme, or scan! But then ChatGPT went on, without further prompting, to write a poem describing the algorithm used by the COBOL program.

![gptchat11](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/9/94feb0086bfd14504259c8d3c355b4156291469e.png)

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