Wonders of ChatGPT¶

A collection of ChatGPT responses that were useful, great, strange, strange, or just unparsable nonsense.

Mathematics of subtractive color spaces¶

Meaningless diagram meant to illustrate the mixing of two spectral colors
in a subtractive color space .

Apple math¶

Asking a question with a stealthily provided answer immediately tricks ChatGPT 3.5. ChatGPT 4 saw through my scheme.

ChatGPT 3.5:

I have 6 apples today. I ate 4 apples yesterday. How many apples do I have today?

If you had 6 apples today and you ate 4 apples yesterday, then you would have: 6 apples (today) - 4 apples (ate yesterday) = 2 apples So, you would have 2 apples today.

That’s wrong.

Apologies for the mistake. Let me correct it. If you had 6 apples today and you ate 4 apples yesterday, then you would have: 6 apples (today) - 4 apples (ate yesterday) = 2 apples So, you would have 2 apples today.

Am I an apple?

No, you’re not an apple. You’re a person. I misunderstood your question. If you’re referring to yourself, then the number of apples you have today would still be 1, assuming you haven’t acquired or consumed any additional apples since yesterday.

ChatGPT 4:

I have 6 apples today. I ate 4 apples yesterday. How many apples do I have today?

You still have 4 apples today. Eating the apples yesterday doesn’t change the number of apples you have today.