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Me: Hi, can you use the concept "bridge" in a never-seen-before sentence, where it still makes sense? Please make the sentence very unusual,
by jodrellblank 2y ago
Me: Hi, can you use the concept "bridge" in a
never-seen-before sentence, where it still makes
sense? Please make the sentence very unusual,
but still coherent. Perhaps a couple of examples?
ChatGPT: Sure! Here are a couple of unusual but coherent
sentences using the concept of "bridge":
The stars whispered their ancient stories across the
sky, building a bridge of forgotten time between my
dreams and the universe’s memories.
Each thought she left unspoken laid a ghostly bridge
between us, invisible but weighty, made of all the
words that could have been.
Both sentences play with abstract ideas, pushing the
concept of a bridge beyond its typical use but
maintaining coherence through metaphor and vivid
imagery.
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It's impossible for me to know everything in the training set but there are no Google results for "building a bridge of forgotten time" or "laid a ghostly bridge between us". If you told me those and said you made them up and didn't copy them from somewhere, I'd have to either find the source you copied or believe you.
- vundercind 2y agoNovelty is not the same as understanding. I think it’s telling that one of the two probably works at least as well with something that’s the opposite of a bridge: gulf, chasm, wall. It just picked a pattern for an analogy and stuck your word in it, mad-libs style. Like, the fact that it’s kinda the opposite of what me would expect makes it a bit poetic in that one’s tempted to pursue what it might mean, but of course the LLM didn’t mean anything (though we still might find meaning). Its patterns encoded two items and “between” being likely to occur, anyway.