What do you get when you mix ChatGPT, Classical Latin and Associative Thinking ?
Experiencing Latin from the Corner Pastry Shop -The ChatGPT Installment
ChatGPT is making headlines, positive and negative on a daily basis. And it has spurred some thinking on my end. Don’t know what ChatGPT is? Well, it is an A.I, an Artificial Intelligence, that is based on what researchers call a Large Language Model that is trained in “Natural Language Understanding”. This computer model has recently been packaged into a chatbot interface, a computer program that regular people, like you and I, can use to conduct human-like conversation on a very broad variety of topics. It might be helpful to think about this as an Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa, on steroids , even better a good cocktail of nootropics. and a pinch of your favorite prescription amphetamine. Jokes aside, you can type in prompt and the system understands human languages, and responds back accordingly.
Don’t believe me? I prompted the system with the following:
ChatGPT — “Please, can you draw a short vignette that describes ChatGPT in classical Latin” .
Humbly it responded about its limitation that it could only reply as next and not draw in real-time, but still did an amazing job responding in an acceptable, yet…
