Please Welcome ChatGPT

Ooo! A new toy.

Do I sense a personality? I wonder if it's situational or consistent.

You have some problem with he? Personification will take place.

No. But that would be interesting to see. What would be more interesting to me, however, would be a consistent personality type across responses. Such consistent simulated emotion (emotion being what personality exhibits) I would not expect from the diverse experiences of this LLM.I have to wonder if Chat knew the

quote:

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"The LLM, a spiritual guru who delves deep into cosmic philosophy and the mysteries of the universe ..."

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in that message was referring to itself or himself herself chatself (maybe you should ask Chat for its gender identity and preferred pronouns?)The pompsity is quite human and humorous. Emergent property? Deliberate programming?

Percy is programming the link to ChatGPT. The pipeline, not ChatGPT itself.

Oh My God! It's Jina! Quick, slap a tariff on something!

So Chat chose Lamark's message to respond to based on what?

Don't be insubordinate, Percy.

Trying to make Chat a productive participant, I should think, would require a consistent personality and a longer post spanning memory. Chat seems to have neither. One of the questions I asked Chat early on was about research into imparting personality into an LLM. Disappointing.Issues to “participation” are a consistent philosophical/political stripe from which Chat would frame its responses. Since such is not (usually) built into the basic fabric of the algorithmic matrix itself it has to be brute forced into the instructions.I can imagine Chat as a reference providing answers to academic questions as a stern scientists (no accommodation/acceptance/tolerance for non-consensus science) but with a sense of humor (word play, dad jokes) and a periodic affectation for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate ice cream.At this level, I’m thinking all the good stuff that would impart personality would have to be explicitly detailed in each message as there appears to be no mechanism to affect one consistently, topic-by-topic, day by day. The request could be a question followed by 2 pages of personality instruction.This might be interesting, or boring …
Ask Chat to produce a paper of 750 words comparing and contrasting the philosophy of Existentialism as expressed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. For tone assume the stern personality of a Humanist college professor with a touch of humor.One other thing.Your forays into AI have not been failures. You may not have achieved your goal of creating an autonomous (Percystein) EvC member
but we all had fun getting here. Thank you.

Know what I'm going to name mine?

Once an AI is almost as good as our guys then we/they will make it better ... and better.As for the non-standard stuff: These are extensions of human ingenuity. What do we usually do when we find a roadblock?