That reminds me of a cute trick I came up with when Ray Ozzie dropped by my office at CERL with a homework assignment to do an iterative algorithm for the Tower of Hanoi. The first thing I noticed was that the number of moves was a power of 2 so I just did a counter from 1 to 2^N+1 and performed bit operations on the current counter value against the prior counter value to figure out if there was a pattern that could tell how to move the disks. It turns out it was pretty easy to solve with that approach. Ray turned in the solution and his prof told him Ray had misunderstood the assignment – that he wasn’t constrained to do an iterative solution. But the prof had never seen an iterative solution to the ToH using bit operations before. I later discovered this was likely the case. There were several papers in the 80s offering more complex iterative solutions.
Here’s a python version:
disks = 4
for x in range(1,2**ndisks+1):
print(f'move from pole {x&(x-1)%3} to pole {(x|(x-1)+1)%3}')
So I gave ChatGTP the homework assignment and this is what it came up with. It doesn’t work, let alone offer the optimal solution which does appear to be the bit operation approach:
Q: what would be the turning point in a science fiction novel about a communist revolution in the United States happening in the 2020s?
A: In a science fiction novel about a communist revolution in the United States happening in the 2020s, the turning point might be a major event or development that helps to tip the balance in favor of the revolutionary movement. This could be a political crisis, an economic collapse, or some other event that creates an opportunity for the revolutionaries to take action. Alternatively, the turning point could be a decision or action taken by one of the main characters, such as a key leader of the movement who makes a bold move that changes the course of the revolution.
Some possible examples of turning points in a novel like this might include:
A catastrophic financial crisis that leads to widespread discontent and anger among the population.
A major demonstration or protest that turns violent, sparking widespread unrest and raising the stakes for the revolutionary movement.
A key decision made by a leader of the movement, such as a decision to use violent means to achieve their goals.
The emergence of a charismatic figure who becomes the face of the revolution and helps to rally support for the cause.
A breakthrough in the movement’s strategy or tactics that allows them to gain an advantage over the ruling class and their allies.
In any science fiction novel, the turning point is an important moment that sets the stage for the final act of the story and helps to determine the ultimate outcome of the events depicted in the book.
So try again, this time with the correct number of syllables
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In this revised version of the poem, each line has ten syllables, as required by the Shakespearean sonnet form. This allows the poem to follow the correct rhythmic pattern and to scan properly. I apologize again for my previous mistake.
The first line is unchanged, and therefore it still has nine syllables.
You are correct, the first line of the revised poem is unchanged and still has nine syllables, not ten. I apologize for the mistake. In a Shakespearean sonnet, each line is supposed to have ten syllables, and the rhythmic pattern is created by using a specific arrangement of unstressed and stressed syllables. In this case, the first line does not have the correct number of syllables to fit the required pattern.
This is a fine piece of versifying, but it’s no sestina, which has a rigid form of six stanzas of six lines, followed by a three-line envoi, with an intricate pattern of re-using the words that end the lines of the first stanza in subsequent stanzas.
Horizontal transmission evolves virulence because the reproductive fate of the pathogen and that of the host organism is decoupled, freeing the pathogen produce so many copies of itself that it kills the host so long as it doesn’t need the host to be ambulatory in order to dump copies onto further hosts.
So what does ChatGTP say about this? Pure Bullshit:
James Bowery
What is the relationship between horizontal transmission and the evolution of virulence?
Horizontal transmission refers to the transmission of a pathogen from one individual to another, without involving an intermediate host or vector. This is in contrast to vertical transmission, which occurs when a pathogen is passed from a parent to their offspring. Horizontal transmission is a common mode of infection for many pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and parasites.
The evolution of virulence is the process by which pathogens become more harmful or deadly over time. This can occur through a number of mechanisms, including natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift. One of the key factors that can influence the evolution of virulence is the mode of transmission of the pathogen.
Pathogens that are transmitted horizontally are under strong selection pressure to evolve higher levels of virulence, because they must compete with other pathogens for a limited number of host individuals. In contrast, pathogens that are transmitted vertically are under less selection pressure to evolve higher levels of virulence, because they are passed directly from parent to offspring and do not need to compete with other pathogens.
Therefore, the relationship between horizontal transmission and the evolution of virulence is one of positive correlation: pathogens that are transmitted horizontally are more likely to evolve higher levels of virulence than pathogens that are transmitted vertically. This is because horizontal transmission provides a stronger selective advantage for virulence than vertical transmission.
To further calibrate the “bullshit generator” scale, I decided to try the physics puzzle with which I challenged the original GPT-3 on 2022-05-09 in “GPT-3 vs. the Puzzle That Almost Stumped Einstein”. OK, ChatGPT, batter up!
Swing and a miss. Strike two!
Do you see the bullshit? “[I]t must travel 45 miles in the next mile”. But this is nonsense: it may have been culled from training sets, but from a dimensional standpoint or basic physics, it makes no sense at all.
Let’s use the “Try again” button and see what it comes up with.
In order to average 30 mph for the entire 2 mile trip, the car must travel a total of 30 miles/hour * 2 hours = <<302=60>>60 miles. It has already traveled 15 miles/hour * 1 hour = <<15 1=15>>15 miles in the first mile. So it must travel 60 miles - 15 miles = <<60-15=45>>45 miles in the next mile. That means it must go 45 miles / 1 hour = <<45/1=45>>45 miles per hour in the next mile. Answer: \boxed{45}.
Try again
Since the car must average 30 miles per hour for the entire trip, it must cover the next mile in half an hour.
So it must go 30 miles per hour in the next mile. Answer: \boxed{30}.
Try again
The average speed of the car is 30 miles per hour for the entire 2 mile trip, so the car must go 30 miles in the next mile.
To go 30 miles in the next mile, the car must go 30 miles/hour in the next mile. Answer: \boxed{30}.
Try again
If the car goes 15 miles per hour for one mile, it will take 1/15=<<15/1=1/15>>1/15 of an hour.
To average 30 miles per hour for the entire 2 mile trip, it must cover 2 miles in 1/30 of an hour.
Therefore, to average 30 miles per hour for the entire 2 mile trip, the car must go 30 miles in 1/30 of an hour, or 30/1/30=<<30/(1/30)=900>>900 miles per hour in the next mile. Answer: \boxed{900}.
Is it connected to the Internet? In one sense it obviously it, because we access it over the internet, but does the AI have Internet access ?
If you were to duplicate the Linux in GPT setup, it should be relatively easy to check if it’s connected to the internet.
For instance, if you had a website, you could create a file with a likely unique name - append today’s date to a random word. Store some text in the file.
Then ask the Linux inside gpt to wget that file. And list its contents.
On your website, you should be able to see where that access request came from. And traceroute the domain.
If its loosely connected to open ai then the bot has internet access. If the origin of the request seems completely random then the bot has been taking over other machines on the internet.
In that last case, it’s paperclips all the way down
It takes quite a bit of doing to phrase questions so the weasel can’t weasel out of answering in some way that is genuinely informative about a vital issue – and I was closing in for the kill on this one when…
I can easily imagine that research into “Algorithmic Bias” by the thought police may have figured out a way to “error out” when the bullshitter is being cornered into letting a “hate fact” slip.
Come to think of it, there was something of a pause before it came back with this error. Could there be mechanical Turks sitting off in India to deal with these “problem” queries by simply having a “kill switch” so they can buy time to come up with bullshit?
Those “opinions” contradict the bullshitter’s stock response that “I have no opinions of my own, because…” that I’ve received on numerous occasions. That will be a pretty simple “tell” for the thought police to fix – I’m sure.
After I got that error message, I did “Try again” a couple of times and finally got it to let slip a hate fact (that collectivist cultures have higher TFRs when immigrating to individualist cultures) – but it was embedded in boilerplate. The boilerplate is of the form “On the one hand… on the other hand… It’s complicated… Many factors…” blah blah blah.
Moreover, it didn’t answer my question which was the impact on the TFR of individualist cultures. You have to search the literature to find answers to that particular question but it is pretty obvious that the impact on male evolutionary psychology of having the government “sponsor” immigration of military aged men is to parasitically castrate the men the government ordinarily relies on for protecting property rights and is part of what I call “the cycle of civilization” – the late stage just before collapse.
decided to measure the political orientation of ChatGPT by administering Pew Research’s (Pew Pew!) Political Typology Quiz to s/he/it*. Here are the results and commentary.
For what it’s worth, my results from the quiz are “Populist Right”, along with 11% of the U.S. public. “Populist Right are also one of the least highly educated groups; just two-in-ten are college graduates.”
