COMMENT | I gave a talk about ‘writing and publishing online’ to a group of aspiring poets at a retirement village. As a prelude, I read them a limerick about life:

There once was a thing called life,

Full of joy, love, and strife,

With ups and downs, it’s true,

But it’s a gift through and through,

So, cherish each moment, rife!

They were quite impressed. Only that I didn’t compose it. ChatGPT did. (GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer). I had fun interacting with ChatGPT. But it has its limitations - for now.

I asked ChatGPT to write my profile in 200 words. It generated an embellished character reference. Convincing but not completely correct.

For the second test, I queried...