If Your Using It Correctly – ChatGPT Is Great
It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I’d help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham Lincoln and it did a pretty good job:
A reasonable list of books about Lincoln. Screen capture by Jonathan May., CC BY-ND
Number 4 isn’t right. Garry Wills famously wrote “Lincoln at Gettysburg,” and Lincoln himself wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, of course, but it’s not a bad start. Then I tried something harder, asking instead about the much more obscure William Henry Harrison, and it gamely provided a list, nearly all of which was wrong.
Books about Harrison, fewer than half of which are correct. Screen capture by Jonathan May., CC BY-ND
Numbers 4 and 5 are correc...