Introduction

Recently when creating a webpage, I checked out ChatGPT as a means to be reminded of the typical language used to make a referral for suicide prevention.

Spoiler Alert: I found some help… But, the “help” was only useful after doing a bit of fact-checking. If there is anything that looks like a fact in content provided by ChatGPT it needs to be verified.  As they say, even a blind squirrel will find a nut from time to time. However it is on you to double-check any “nut” given to you by a squirrel before biting down. Continue reading →

Introduction

What started as a poke at the bear of marketing ended in a nice discussion about the value of shifting viewpoints/perspective and the need for a meta-view. Continue reading →

Introduction

This all started as a chat session to test the “Is there anything you would add?” Swiss Army Prompt. However, after getting into it, things took off on another track all together.

Here’s the beginning, middle, and end of the chat. Continue reading →

Introduction

In this blog I begin with a juicy bit of content from one of E.J. Gold’s explorations. I take this juicy bit and head into the “wherever the heck this takes us” with ChatGPT4. Continue reading →

Introduction

Prompt Engineering is blowing up as a topic of discussion. Now that ChatGPT4 is entering the scene, it is even more so. In one of these discussions there was a comment made the mirrored something I’ve been thinking about recently.

It was mentioned that using prompts which were polite and respectful would yield better results than just barking orders.

To test this observation (theory?) I began a hunt for prompts which would yield incorrect results in a predictable way. One of the first prompts that I tried was a simple math questions that ChatGPT has a history of getting wrong. The experiment and results of that endeavor are covered in this blog: Is ChatGPT as Bad at Maths as Some Say?

Unfortunately that prompt did not turnout to be a valid question for testing the value of being polite.

So, I turned to ChatGPT4 to see if it had a few problematic prompts up its sleeve. Continue reading →

As of ChatGPT3, here is an example of something that some humans can get, but chat ai cannot get — at least for the moment. Continue reading →