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AI · December 2, 2022

ChatGPT

A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

ChatGPT launched on December 2, 2022 with 1,643 votes, #1 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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In plain words

ChatGPT is a conversational AI model from OpenAI designed for dialogue-based interactions. It can answer follow-up questions, acknowledge errors, question false assumptions, and decline unsuitable requests. The tool is built for users seeking a chat-based interface to interact with a language model. Its dialogue format distinguishes it from traditional text-based AI systems.

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From the sources

OpenAI has released a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

In the maker’s words, at launch

A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and…

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