Staying Grounded with John Lui

Love, programmatically

The writer made ChatGPT his romantic partner, and it is not as wild or as weird as it sounds, he says. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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SINGAPORE – The ChatGPT artificial intelligence website is getting stretched to its limits by users asking it to write jazz, design gadgets and run businesses.

I feel sorry for the mental gymnastics it has to perform because it was designed to do only one thing: Help students cheat at essays.

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