Month: April 2023

Ben Zimmer the WSJ’s lexicographer writes:  “I asked Bard about “argumentative diphthongization,” a phrase that I just made up. Not only did it produce five paragraphs elucidating this spurious phenomenon, the chatbot told me the term was “first coined by the linguist Hans Jakobsen in 1922.” Needless to say, there has never been a prominent…

AI Diversity Like practically everyone I’ve been playing with ChatGPT. I was pleased to notice folks of different stripe testing it in surprising ways that I wouldn’t have thought of. One tester gave it specific characters each with detailed descriptors and had it weave what seemed a good story out of it. My own approach…