> and didn't instruct the grad student to pay $20 to use GPT-4
An inexcusable oversight... more so on the grad student than Knuth.
For example, Knuth's complaint about the question "What is an optimystic?":
> Answer #5 also pretty good. (Again it begins with "I'm sorry".) But it should have conjectured a mystic who is an optimist.
And here is GPT4's answer to the same question:
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As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, "Optimystic" is not a recognized term in standard English. However, it could be a play on words combining "optimist" and "mystic."
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So, hypothetically, an "optimystic" could refer to someone who combines these attributes - perhaps someone who is hopeful about the future and sees the world through a spiritual or metaphysical lens.
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Similarly, on question #18, Knuth complains that GPT doesn't know the stock market is closed on Saturday, yet the GPT4 answer begins:
> As of my last training data in September 2021, and generally speaking, stock markets such as the NASDAQ are closed on weekends, including Saturday.
Those were just 2 I randomly checked.
An inexcusable oversight... more so on the grad student than Knuth.
For example, Knuth's complaint about the question "What is an optimystic?":
> Answer #5 also pretty good. (Again it begins with "I'm sorry".) But it should have conjectured a mystic who is an optimist.
And here is GPT4's answer to the same question:
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As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, "Optimystic" is not a recognized term in standard English. However, it could be a play on words combining "optimist" and "mystic."
...
So, hypothetically, an "optimystic" could refer to someone who combines these attributes - perhaps someone who is hopeful about the future and sees the world through a spiritual or metaphysical lens.
...
---
Similarly, on question #18, Knuth complains that GPT doesn't know the stock market is closed on Saturday, yet the GPT4 answer begins:
> As of my last training data in September 2021, and generally speaking, stock markets such as the NASDAQ are closed on weekends, including Saturday.
Those were just 2 I randomly checked.