ChatGPT Lies - Breakfast Cereal
Breakfast with ChatGPT When I ask ChatGPT to rephrase something I've written, it does a fantastic job of finding just the right words. However, it sucks at math word problems and writing SQL code (close, but not quite). It frequently coughs up such audacious narrative that I decided to begin documenting our conversations. Here's one of them. In my childhood, I remember a flake breakfast cereal that was similarly shaped like Special K with smooth-edged flakes. It had the most amazing flavor, but it wasn't sugar coated. Here's how the conversation went down. Me: I'm looking for the name of a flake breakfast cereal that was around in the 1970's. The flakes were not raggedy shaped like Wheaties, Corn Flakes, or Total. They were smooth-edged, but it wasn't Special K. ChatGPT: Ah, I see! Given the description, it's possible you're thinking of "Rice Krispies." Rice Krispies is a flake cereal made of crisped ric...