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> Me: Does a cannon inflate when it fires? > ChatGPT: No, a cannon does not inflate when it fires. Inflate means to fill something with air or gas, whereas a c
by CobrastanJorji 4y ago
> Me: Does a cannon inflate when it fires?
> ChatGPT: No, a cannon does not inflate when it fires. Inflate means to fill something with air or gas, whereas a cannon uses gunpowder to create an explosion that propels a projectile out of the barrel. The explosion in a cannon is a rapid release of gas, which can cause the barrel of the cannon to expand slightly, but it does not inflate in the sense of being filled with air or gas.
ChatGPT produces really great sounding answers, but consistency is not a goal.
- dTal 4y agoI would not expect dictionary-level consistency from it. Even humans freely use words differently in different contexts, and it would be particularly unfair to hold it against ChatGPT for getting creative when asked to find the similarities between two radically different objects. If anything, this answer is extraordinarily impressive because, although it decided to be a stickler for definitions this time, it reaffirms the metaphor that it invented last time. In other words, it seems reasonable to conclude that in some sense it "knows" that the barrel of the cannon expands slightly (a fact it implied but neglected to mention last time), and can use this to make inferences.