If you missed part one, where I ask the machines to predict how our demises might have gone along another timeline, I invite you to take a gander at one of life’s richer pageants.
One thing about this exercise before we hit up Part 2: ChatGPT isn’t very good with nuance. If you want it to ponder a specific question, you need to be specific and ask the right question the right way. Can this be a frustrating exercise that sometimes ends with a reasonable adult mumbling “No you stupid machine that’s not what I meant about Tubby Smith and you know it” that is for me and my ChatGPT history to unpack together one day once the robots have made their takeover complete. Like a lot of other machine-learning items, part of the fun seems to be in decoding what sequence of prompts will best answer the question you pose.
Or, that’s what I choose to tell myself because the machine is being pedantic and refuses to understand what I mean. Today’s is a doozy, requiring multiple parts and multiple questions.
Scenario for ChatGPT: Missouri State receives an at-large bid into the 2006 NCAA Tournament.
Situation: Missouri State is the lowest-ranked RPI squad—No. 21—to get squeezed out of the NCAA Tournament. Why? Well, probably because they were Missouri State and other at-large teams were not. But we set out to surmise what might have happened had the Bears made the field. The answer could surprise you.