So... I asked ChatGPT.

[LAS14]

I've been playing around with this. Are you all excited or worried?

I just wanted to understand it better.

Requests for fiction have been extremely disappointing. But a request to tell me the mathematical steps behind e=mc2 was pretty impressive.

Here's my latest. Jaylen Brown is a Boston Celtics basketball player who cut his hand shortly before their first playoff game. I couldn't imagine how it happened.

How could someone cut their finger bad enough to need 5 stitches when picking up a broken vase?

It is possible for someone to cut their finger badly enough to require 5 stitches when picking up a broken vase, depending on various factors such as the size and shape of the broken glass, the force with which the person picked up the vase, and the location and angle of the cut.

For example, if the person picked up a large piece of broken glass with a jagged edge, and applied a significant amount of pressure, the glass could have easily caused a deep laceration on the finger. Additionally, if the cut was located in a sensitive area with many blood vessels, such as the fingertip, it could have bled heavily and required stitches to stop the bleeding and promote proper healing.

It is also important to note that even seemingly minor cuts can sometimes require stitches if they are located in certain areas, such as the face or hands, due to the risk of infection and scarring. If you or someone you know has suffered a deep or bleeding cut, it is recommended to seek medical attention as soon as possible.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Very worried. That PP sounds like a neurotic lecture delivered by someone who hates you

If we're all going to speak perfect, crisp, metered grammar with every nuance and implication teased to maximum extrapolation, we're going to go crazy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Tough

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. He got cut in the webbing between two fingers. A mere mortal may not have gotten stitches, but

someone who makes his money shooting a ball is going to need that injury to stabilize as soon as possible. So it's not necessarily that the cut was bad, but that it needed to be stable and heal quickly.

[LAS14]

5. Thanks! Good to know that a real human might still be smarter than ChatGPT. nt

[intrepidity]

4. I asked it to design a shelf thing for me

I told it the purpose, size and materials and it gave me the list of parts I'd need. This was with PVC pipes, so lots of pieces and various connectors.

It's a useful tool for many purposes, just need to figure out which ones it's best for. I like it, and it's inevitable so decided to embrace it (also so it doesn't kill me).

[LAS14]

7. When people worry about being killed, I think, we can always pull the plug! nt

[highplainsdem]

6. Don't trust ChatGPT for anything. Check everything it tells you, especially if it's

at all important.

See this: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217830079

The best description of ChatGPT that I've run across is that it's a bullshit generator. It produces convincing sounding text that may or may not be true.

See the blog that thread links to for examples of how much misinformation it will churn out.

It might get things right, and its promoters want it to get all the credit for that. It can also get them horribly wrong, and its promoters want that overlooked or forgiven.

But it's a favorite with students who want to cheat on assignments, and schools are now using AI detectors to try to catch the cheaters, though the AI detectors are just as unreliable as ChatGPT and give false positives and false negatives. I'm seeing more and more social media posts from students whose original essays were misidentified as written by AI.

To check for myself, I took a ChatGPT-written story posted on Reddit and ran it through GPTZero, one of the most popular AI detectors. The.AI detector said some parts were AI and some were human-written. I've read that these AI detectors can give different results if asked to analyze the same text just minutes apart, in different sessions. Just as ChatGPT can give very different responses to the same prompt in different sessions. Just as art AI like Midjourney and DALL-E can produce very different images from the same prompt at different times.