ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad

[Hornbein]

I asked ChatGPT to prove something and it gave me a load of BS. I didn't know enough to tell, I had to have some mathematicians look at it. This soured me on such things. But I suppose these people are using a better version.

Being unable to understand a proof I gave ChatGPT another chance : please explain this to me. Its mien is today quite different from its sycophancy of yesteryear. It's tone was more "you chump, it's frustrating that your feeble brain is unable to grasp my perfectly clear explanation", this spiced up with lots of bold and italic emphasis to drive its points home. It was entirely true that I was looking at it from a direction that would never lead to a decent proof but that's the perspective that interested me, dammit. I didn't particularly like its tone but it was far better than being served with the BS of yore. It was also better than asking at MathStack. Not only is the response much quicker, my experience at MathStack is that after completely failing to understand what I wanted they would delete my questions as too poorly framed to engage with.

In sum, ChatGPT has made great progress but room for improvement.

 

[DaveC426913]

It's tone is selectable. I've gotten asked more than once what tone Id like. Perhaps theres a setting you've got turned on.

 

[gmax137]

Like the Monty Python "argument clinic"?

 

[DaveC426913]

mien

TIL a new word.

Six decades on the planet and it still surprises me when that happens.

 

[AlexB23]

Greetings folks. So, while this AI is self-hosted and open source-ish, it works great for many tasks that ChatGPT would do. Recommended movies/TV related to Doctor Who. Worked well, as I have watched Steins;Gate and Serial Experiments Lain back in 2025 and 2024 and know that these fit the description I have prompted it to find. So, yeah, AI is great for recommending stuff and many other tasks, not good at math or physics.