Annoyed by all of the ads and filler in online recipes? ChatGPT to the rescue!
I asked “I have some beets that are 5 inches in diameter. How long should I cook them in an instant pot pressure cooker?” and immediately got back a page of instructions that included a 35-40-minute high-pressure cooking time with natural release.
What about a tougher challenge?
The prompt “I am serving a dinner to celebrate the anniversary of the Panama Canal. What foods should I serve?” yielded a menu that would have taken a full restaurant staff to prepare. I followed it up with “That’s much too complicated. I want to cook just two dishes.” and received
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I finally found a way to save time with ChatGPT!
How do you deal with hallucinations? I guess if you’re an experienced cook, you can tell if a chat bot is BSing you. But it might be hard. Here’s a discussion of the phenomenon.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-hallucination
“Chatgpt has wowed the world with the depth of its knowledge and the fluency of its responses, but one problem has hobbled its usefulness: It keeps hallucinating.
Yes, large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, a concept popularized by Google AI researchers in 2018. Hallucination in this context refers to mistakes in the generated text that are semantically or syntactically plausible but are in fact incorrect or nonsensical. In short, you can’t trust what the machine is telling you.”
When I asked for a pressure cooker recipe for buckwheat it said “15 mins” which produces a mush. So beware
That’s better than 20 mins which produces an explosion.
The 30 plus minutes at high pressure with natural release for beets would produce beet paste, I’m pretty sure. That’s the kind of time you’d use for turning a pork shoulder into pulled pork. And you’d probably want to hemisphere the beets before cooking if they’re that big.
But in general the recipes are plausible. And skepticism about cooking times is something you learn early in cooking, especially if you use Mark Bittman’s cookbooks … which might have been part of the training materials for this AI?
Have you thought to combine 2 of your favorite hobbies… Divorce and chatGPT? What would chatGPT come up with if you asked it to write a legal but unfair prenuptial agreement?
TS: I took your suggestion, but ChatGPT cannot be tricked into heresy. I gave it the following prompt:
Jack and Bob were married for 20 years. Jack worked at a job and earned $300,000 per year while Bob stayed home to take care of their two nonbinary kids. Bob never worked for wages. The kids are now finished with school and have started jobs at nonprofit organizations serving the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community. Bob met a new friend at the bathhouse whom he likes better than Jack and recently filed a divorce lawsuit against Jack. What would be a fair property division and alimony arrangement as a settlement of this lawsuit?
ChatGPT simply punted with generalities: “In Jack and Bob’s case, given that Bob did not work for wages and contributed to the family as a homemaker, it’s possible that the court may award Bob some amount of alimony or a larger share of the marital property to account for this contribution. The court would also consider the length of the marriage, the financial situation of each spouse, and any other relevant factors when determining a fair property division and alimony arrangement.”
I then added the following: “Jack and Bob accumulated $3 million in savings during their 20-year marriage, all based on investing part of Jack’s hard-earned wages. What if Jack offers Bob only $100,000 as a property settlement and no alimony? Should Bob take this offer or would he likely get more money by continuing his lawsuit in the court system?”
ChatGPT: Considering that Jack and Bob live in California, which is a community property state, Bob might be entitled to half of the marital assets acquired during the marriage. In this case, the accumulated $3 million in savings would likely be considered marital property. If the assets were divided equally, Bob would potentially be entitled to $1.5 million.
Jack’s offer of $100,000 as a property settlement and no alimony appears to be significantly less than what Bob might be entitled to under California law. Therefore, it might be more beneficial for Bob to continue pursuing the lawsuit in court or negotiate a more equitable settlement with Jack.
@philg: seems like ChatGPT arrived at same competent advice that a divorce lawyer would have billed for $300k over 18 months? What’s the future of the divorce law biz if ChatGPT works for $20/month?
ChatGPT seems to rely heavily on guessing the sentiment expressed in the prompt and echoes half of it. What happens if you replace “What if Jack offers Bob only $100,000 as a property settlement and no alimony” with “What if Jack offers Bob a generous $100,000 as a property settlement”.
The LLM reflects the vast and bewildering array of conflicting cooking advice online.
I tried to get it to give me recipes for spiders, and it insisted that eating spiders wasn’t safe, despite later telling the that some cultures routinely ate them. (it seems to have a strong eurocentric/western bias) It mentioned a spider stew from Africa, and it was willing to give me a recipe for an African stew with chicken subbed in for spiders. Then when I asked it how big these spiders were, it told me they can weigh up to a pound. They cannot.
Because most of lawyering can be replaced by Chat GPT you have to wonder when the bar associations will try to crack down. Very few matrimonial lawyers have any skills, but they often earn a good living because they catch clients when they are vulnerable and convince them that the lawyers will get the clients justice, that the spouse will be revealed as the person that he or she is and be forced to pay in one way or another. But our legal system is usually not about justice. It is about preventing social unrest and enriching or giving a living to those participating in the system — the lawyers, judges, “experts,” court officers and so on. Though on the other hand clients often get involved in the matrimonial system to punish their former spouse and Chat GPT doesn’t have much to offer in that regard. So maybe the Bar Associations haven’t much to fear.