I swear, ChatGPT knows everything. Today it told me I could run the following in the developer tools console to speed up YouTube video playback beyond the “maximum” of 2x up to 3x (or more!).
document.querySelector("video").playbackRate = 3.0;
ChatGPT explains Cultural Attache.
Well. Turns out you can only chain up to five USB hubs. I know, because I tried to chain six. I feel like this is a life accomplishment, and it should unlock a secret level or something. After finding this limitation myself, ChatGPT confirmed it.
I asked ChatGPT who is the girl in Massive Attack? It told me:
I think that’s a pretty good answer. The girl I was thinking of was Elizabeth Fraser who sings Teardrop. Horace Andy is a man, not a woman, but ChatGPT just listed him as an aside, it didn’t claim he was a woman.
I checked Massive Attack band members and there were a few other female collaborators which ChatGPT didn’t list, but it didn’t hallucinate anything or tell me any lies. I’m not sure if I should give ChatGPT a B grade for missing a few female collaborators, or an A for giving me a simpler answer which contained the fact I actually wanted to know, viz who is the girl who sings Teardrop?
ChatGPT explains the golden ratio.
I asked ChatGPT to format php datetime as “Fri 24 Mar 2023” and it “understood” what I meant and gave me the answer that I wanted! If that’s not intelligence I don’t know what is…
ChatGPT answers the question Is it artist then title or title then artist? Its answer: Artist – Title.
Ah, click bait. Sign of the times! MEGATHREAT: Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat.
Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He is the former chief business officer for Google X and author of the books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart.
Mo says there are some things we shouldn’t waste time talking about because they are going to happen, inevitably. These are:
…and the fourth inevitability? Utopia..?
ChatGPT explains equivocation. Its example:
ChatGPT tells me about the Lorentz Factor.