Don Knuth Shares His ChatGPT Experiment and Reflections
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A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article recounts Don Knuth's personal experiment with ChatGPT on 07 April 2023, shared as part of a correspondence with Stephen Wolfram. The results were intriguing enough for Knuth to share with friends and later post online, with minimal edits to his own commentary. The piece reflects on the interaction and its implications, offering a firsthand account of engaging with AI.
Key quotes
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The results were sufficiently interesting that I passed them on to a few friends the next day.
I did not edit my questions or the computer's answers, only my own commentary at the end.
Article URL: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848259
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