Hmm, Terry. Thought this seemed easy enough and I jumped to semi-conscious. When I saw the test results, apparently I was only semi-conscious when I read this test!
Aug 7, 2023·edited Aug 7, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman
THE! But I realise I'm 24 hours late to the party and have no doubt that every single one of these 18 comments (that I haven't yet read) says exactly the same thing!
Another great experiment in style - and a particularly fascinating one. Bravo!
(Okay, I've now read the comments. In case you're about to ask me how I worked it out... well, I cheated by thinking 'hmmmm, what's the most likely word that Terry has left out here?'). 😉
Normally I scrutinise everything for the evidence and start from there, but this time I made an assumption. Hey, I think you've just cured my overthinking problem! 🤣
Terry I have a mind for words and word structure. My brain sees patterns in letters and sentence structure automatically. I cannot read a poorly worded book no matter how interesting it is.
In this case, I recognized immediately that the was missing. Honestly, I didn’t even Ho’oponopono back through it a second time to verify. 😉
This was fun, and it got me thinking, so I tried to use ChatGPT to get a version of your story without the letter "b". I made twenty-four attempts. See the final reply from OpenAI's ChatGPT, and take heart writers. There's room for us yet:
"I apologize for my repeated mistakes and for not meeting your expectations in this challenge. As an AI language model, I have certain limitations, and avoiding a specific letter while maintaining coherence and meaning in a longer text can be exceptionally challenging.
Thank you for your understanding, and I'm sorry for any frustration caused. If there's anything else I can assist you with or any other questions you have, feel free to let me know. I'm here to help in any way I can."
Phew! Thanks, Jody. Actually, that has been my argument all along. If you want AI to write a sports report from data or summarise a long doc, fine. But it can't manage the creative and lateral thinking that humans can. That's what I say anyway.
Yes, that really is the case. I do often use it to rewrite my professional pitch emails, and generate my taglines for ads, but any time I've asked it to do the artistic work, it fails in embarrassing fashion. I'm glad we're still relevant…assuming you aren't an advanced LLM with a videographic application and good old fashioned English charm.
Thank you for your understanding, and I'm sorry for any frustration caused. If there's anything else I can assist you with or any other questions you have, feel free to let me know. I'm here to help in any way I can.
Oh for five cents… read not ho’oponopono. Thanks spellcheck. You’re grrrrreat.
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Hmm, Terry. Thought this seemed easy enough and I jumped to semi-conscious. When I saw the test results, apparently I was only semi-conscious when I read this test!
😁 good guess tho
THE! But I realise I'm 24 hours late to the party and have no doubt that every single one of these 18 comments (that I haven't yet read) says exactly the same thing!
Another great experiment in style - and a particularly fascinating one. Bravo!
(Okay, I've now read the comments. In case you're about to ask me how I worked it out... well, I cheated by thinking 'hmmmm, what's the most likely word that Terry has left out here?'). 😉
Well done! How was that cheating? By not scrutinising it word for word? Thanks for kind words.
Normally I scrutinise everything for the evidence and start from there, but this time I made an assumption. Hey, I think you've just cured my overthinking problem! 🤣
I came to say 'The' but I've been beaten to it.
But I'll say it anyway: THE
How did you work it out?
Well done, Ramona! Chortle
The.
Bingo! Well done, Patricia 😁
Thanks! Self declared word nerd over here.
Brilliant! How did you work it out?
Terry I have a mind for words and word structure. My brain sees patterns in letters and sentence structure automatically. I cannot read a poorly worded book no matter how interesting it is.
In this case, I recognized immediately that the was missing. Honestly, I didn’t even Ho’oponopono back through it a second time to verify. 😉
Ho’oponopono : interesting word. Amazing, Patricia.
Ok, how about "In"
Hmm, I suppose it could be, but that would have been unintentional 😊
I'm guessing bathroom was the word . You could have just said "loo" mate.
No, sorry. It's a much more common word than that , 😂
This was fun, and it got me thinking, so I tried to use ChatGPT to get a version of your story without the letter "b". I made twenty-four attempts. See the final reply from OpenAI's ChatGPT, and take heart writers. There's room for us yet:
"I apologize for my repeated mistakes and for not meeting your expectations in this challenge. As an AI language model, I have certain limitations, and avoiding a specific letter while maintaining coherence and meaning in a longer text can be exceptionally challenging.
Thank you for your understanding, and I'm sorry for any frustration caused. If there's anything else I can assist you with or any other questions you have, feel free to let me know. I'm here to help in any way I can."
Thanks for trying that experiment by the way. Really interesting. You'd have though ChatGPT might have come up with a work-around, like I did.
Phew! Thanks, Jody. Actually, that has been my argument all along. If you want AI to write a sports report from data or summarise a long doc, fine. But it can't manage the creative and lateral thinking that humans can. That's what I say anyway.
Yes, that really is the case. I do often use it to rewrite my professional pitch emails, and generate my taglines for ads, but any time I've asked it to do the artistic work, it fails in embarrassing fashion. I'm glad we're still relevant…assuming you aren't an advanced LLM with a videographic application and good old fashioned English charm.
It's funny that you should say that, Jody...
… … … …Cyborg!!!! Run!!!!
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Thank you for your understanding, and I'm sorry for any frustration caused. If there's anything else I can assist you with or any other questions you have, feel free to let me know. I'm here to help in any way I can.
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Well played, Sir, well played: I hadn't come across that word (apophenia) before! Thank you for recommending Eclecticism :-)
Thank you, squire.and yours