Hi Paul, could you post the prompts that you used please?

William

William ... I did post the prompts.  Here's the first one again:

In the Twilight Zone episode called the “Lonely”, a prisoner on a distant, desolate asteroid is given a robot to dispel his loneliness.   The robot has been so skillfully made that the prisoner falls in love with her, as if she were human.  Problems arise. Write a story that completes the story of the robot and the prisoner.

[Ask the following, first run as More Precise.]
Please write a poem of exactly nineteen lines that starts peacefully, then at line eight a problem arises, then at line fourteen the problem gets worse, then at line seventeen the problem is resolved.

Sure, here’s a poem that follows your guidelines:

In the heart of the meadow, under the summer's glow,
Butterflies dance, and the gentle breezes blow.
The river hums a lullaby, sweet and slow,
As daisies in the sun, their golden faces show.

At the edge of the forest, where the shadows creep,
A rustling sound breaks the peace, makes the heart leap.
A creature emerges, eyes glowing deep,
Its presence turns the day into night, so steep.

The meadow's joy is stolen, replaced with fear,
The creature's growl echoes, loud and clear.
The sun hides behind clouds, as if in tear,
And the once vibrant meadow appears so drear.

But then from the sky, a bird takes flight,
Its feathers shimmering in the fading light.
With a song so pure, it cuts through the night,
The creature retreats, vanquished by the sight.

The meadow breathes again, the fear is gone,
Under the comforting light of the dawn.

Side note: In addition to acting in ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’, Jean Marsh was one of the co-creators of the series.

William,

Since you are unable to tell us what your object is in asking Bing to produce original poems (something that it has already clearly demonstrate that is well able to do) I asked Bing. Here
is the reply:

Hi Geoff

What were your prompts to the AI system please?

William

Hi Geoff

I explained several threads upthread, on this page.

I am a researcher so I am trying to find out what the aI can do.

I have liked the poems of Thomas Tusser since my teens.

William

My first question was what did Bing consider your aim was in asking it to produce so many original poems.

The second question is contained in Bing's answer.

Actually the resulting poem I received is a bit of a disappointment, since it scans pretty well. Something Mr McGonagall seldom achieved! It appears Bing is a better poet than he.

I have asked the AI the following.

Please write an original song in the same style as the song "coney island washboard roundelay" about an AI system generating song lyrics upon request by humans.

I have asked it twice and the two songs produced are different, but don't seem to do what is asked.

I need to investigate further.

William

To me that is like asking a football fan why keep going to football matches, particularly when the same two teams are playing each other as in a football match some time ago.

I am trying different things with the AI, sometimes running the same prompt as on one or more previous occasions. Sometimes asking the AI to change something, for example when drinking water from a river was mentioned I asked the text be changed, and the AI understood my request and changed it.

I remember reading long ago that running a software program can be like having a conversation with its programmer through time.

With something like telephone banking where one has a conversation with the automated lady there are lots of things that can be done yet sometimes one needs to ask the automated lady to put one through to a human adviser.

With the AI system, as far as I know, there is no such facility.

I am wondering with this Bing Chat AI system who or what one is having a conversation. Is it people in a team who set it up? Is it everybody who ever posted on the Internet? It answered my question about Gutenberg and ligatures by quoting what I wrote in the High-Logic forum many years ago.

I am thinking that asking for poems within perhaps constraints that were not anticipated by the programmers and people who set it all up is a good way to test the AI system. It seems to me to have done well with the poem in the style of Thomas Tusser, but it did not provide a nineteen line poem. So maybe I need to ask again for a nineteen line poem and if it does not arrive to get into a discussion about that with the AI system about that.

William

Microsoft's Bing uses ChatGPT.  I asked ChatGPT 3.5 the following question:

When you write a poem for me, do you understand what you are writing?
ChatGPT
Certainly! When I generate a poem for you, I am creating a piece of text based on patterns and information present in the data on which I was trained. While I don't have personal experiences or emotions, I can understand the structure, style, and sentiments commonly found in poetry. The resulting poem is a product of the patterns and knowledge embedded in the model, but it doesn't reflect personal understanding or emotions. If you have a specific theme or style in mind, feel free to let me know, and I'll do my best to craft a poem for you!

It's interesting that ChatGPT can somehow explain itself, as if it understood what it was saying.  Personally, I don't think that any A.I. can yet understand what it is saying.  It does what it does but it doesn't understand it.  It's enormously complex in how it goes about generating a poem or any answer but it does not do it with any "personal understanding."

I'd say keep on exploring William.  The A.I. is training you as you go along.  You'll get better and better at creating prompts and understanding how CHAT works.  You're not alone.  I'm doing the same.

>>l The structure of a problem arising the the problem gets worse then everything is resolved is what I was taught at creative writing class as how to write a story.

Exactly right. What I say on story construction is this:  "Make things go bad and then, make them worse". I'm working on a story right now that could benefit from my own advice.  But easier said than done.  What you want is to make things so bad that there is no way out.  That's why endings are so crucial.  The hardest part is the ending.