https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/
"It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing
for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class, asked for help in
her role as Thomas Hobbes, witness for the defense. I put the question to
ChatGPT, which had just been announced by OpenAI a few hours earlier:
[I got] a confident answer, complete with supporting evidence and a citation to
Hobbes work, and it is completely wrong. Hobbes was a proponent of absolutism,
the belief that the only workable alternative to anarchy — the natural state of
human affairs — was to vest absolute power in a monarch; checks and balances
was the argument put forth by Hobbes’ younger contemporary John Locke, who
believed that power should be split between an executive and legislative
branch. James Madison, while writing the U.S. Constitution, adopted an evolved
proposal from Charles Montesquieu that added a judicial branch as a check on
the other two."
Via Will.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
