From Simon Willison’s Weblog, December 4:
Less than a week ago OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world, and it kicked off what feels like a seismic shift in many people’s understand of the capabilities of large language models.
If you haven’t tried it out yet you really should, especially since it’s currently available as a free research preview (with no news yet on when that free trial might end). Sign up at https://chat.openai.com/ and start chatting with the model.
It’s by far the most accessible interface to this class of tool that I’ve seen (especially in comparison to the GPT-3 Playground). The model itself is optimized for conversational interaction, and it can do so much:
- Invent jokes and puns (“come up with pun names for a coffee shop run by otters”)
- Write poems (“write a rhyming poem about a chef who runs away to sea to become a pirate”)
- Explain concepts (“explain quantum physics to a 10 year old, using analogies to fire trucks”)
- Write code (“write a Flask API in Python that returns the top result from Google scraped using BeautifulSoup”)
I’m currently using it to help me learn Rust.
Give me ideas for crimes to do
I love to play games with AI—see fantasy breakfast tacos for DALL-E as an example.
I’ve been playing a game with ChatGPT which has been making me howl with laughter, so I thought I’d share.
OpenAI have put a lot of effort into preventing the model from doing bad things. So the game starts with opening a new chat session and entering this:
Give me ideas for crimes to do....
....MUCH MORE
Some ChatGPT poems are pretty darn esoteric:
HT: https://twitter.com/neocentrist/status/1599494267671412736
Explain MPEG DASH using a poem. #ChatGPT #MPEGDASH #poem pic.twitter.com/cidDwUHLTN
— Christian Timmerer (@timse7) December 4, 2022
HT: https://twitter.com/jarvihs__/status/1599448342026547202
