God and the Peanut Butter Sandwich

ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chatbot that is capable of understanding natural human language and generating impressively detailed human-like written text, is the latest evolution of the GPT – or Generative Pre-Trained Transformer – family of text-generating AIs. Launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022, it quickly collected one million users in just one week! 

 

It has been trained to generate human-like responses to text input in a conversational context. And it can write emails and essays, poetry, answer questions, or generate lines of code based on a prompt. 

 

This could be used to develop virtual assistants or quickly answer customer queries. Content platform Jasper said about 80,000 clients have used its software to draft ads, emails, blogs and other material. 

 

And a Twitter user, Thomas H Ptacek, had shared the ChatGPT output he got to this prompt, “Write a biblical verse in the style of the King James Bible explaining how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR”: 

 

What a masterpiece! 👏

 

In fact, the chatbot powered by reams of data from the Internet even passed exams at a US law school after writing essays on topics ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts. 

 

A professor at Minnesota University Law School, Jonathan Choi and his colleagues published an article on January 23 titled “ChatGPT goes to law school” after the AI tool completed tests comprising 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions. 

 

Exams for the AI tool were the same as those for other law students. 

 

Even though it had passed with an overall C+, ChatGPT’s exam scores were still among the lowest in the class in the majority of courses, particularly when it came to topics involving mathematics, which Choi claimed it “bombed”. The professor said the bot was a mediocre student. 

 

“Overall, ChatGPT wasn’t a great law student acting alone”, he tweeted. “But we expect that collaborating with humans, language models like ChatGPT would be very useful to law students taking exams and to practising lawyers”. 

 

Choi dismissed fears that students could use the AI tool to cheat during exams. He said two of three examiners could spot the Chat bot’s script because of its “perfect grammar”. 

 

“(They) had a hunch and their hunch was right, because ChatGPT had perfect grammar and was somewhat repetitive”, Choi asserted.