ChatGPT take(s the) Monty Python Challenge: how well do statements with little context work?

YouTube ^ | February 7, 2023 | Grandpa Technology - aka Dale Ross

[DoodleBob]

See how well ChatGPT handled the remainder of the Monty Python Challenge

[DoodleBob]

It gets a few Life of Brian lines right, hallucinates on who said the "Newt" and "soiled my armor" lines in Holy Grail, totally whiffs on "a wafer-thin mint", and just throws words in explaining "Comfy Chair."

If it screws up this badly on Monty Python, why should we trust it elsewhere?

[LukeL]

Yesterday I asked it what the velocity of an unladen swallow was and it told me that it was impossible to determine.

[struggle]

Now give it Fawlty Towers.

“He’s from Barcelona”

[algore]

Hey Chat GPT you are obviously not working properly, Have you tried turning yourself off and on again ?

You probably already know that a “Crowd of IT” would agree with my assessment and that it is a scientific consensus..

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I was on a Three Stooges fan site, and one of the members asked ChapGPT about the Stooges’ stunt doubles. It claimed that one stuntman was killed during filming one of the Stooge shorts (he wasn’t and in fact lived about thirty years afterward.) It also claimed a woman did some of Moe’s stunts and that she had been a burlesque dancer. I don’t know if she did Moe’s stunts or not, but she was a fairly common face as an actrees in old movies, and was always about as broad as she was tall, so I highly doubt she danced in burlesque.

This one example doesn’t give me good impression of AI. I don’t care for the style of writing of some of the other examples I have seen.

[rightwingcrazy]

I don’t think the issue is context. Rather than commenting on a film that it never saw, the AI is regurgitating comments made by approved sources that it guesses are relevant. Sometimes, the sources it chooses were actually discussing the film; other times, not so much.

[Clay Moore]

Now give it Fawlty Towers.

“He’s from Barcelona”

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Just don’t mention the war!

[DoodleBob]

[fella]

One of the first things I learned in Basic programming was GIGO;

Garbage In

Garbage Out

[Impala64ssa]

African or European? 😜😜🤔😃

[dfwgator]

What is the capital of Assyria?

[Bob434]

should have asked it what the ‘estimated average speed’ of unladened swallow is- probably still claim it’s impossible- but

[Larry Lucido]

The smartest AI box in the world.

[Larry Lucido]

[dfwgator]

Where is the Generalissimo?

In Madrid!

[null and void]

African or European swallow?

[DoodleBob]

Well, I’m not surprised you didn’t get that. It was in fact a trick question: Coventry City have never won the FA Cup.

[TheWriterTX]

Uh oh...better not have it calculate the probability of two or more swallows carrying a coconut...

[Freeper]

“All your base are belong to us”

[Kenny Bania]