Being curious about the coming availability of artificial intelligence (AI), I logged in and signed up to use ChatGPT. It’s a forerunner demonstrating some of the possibilities of massive databases that can be put to use – both good and bad, or just for fun.
After logging in the OpenAI’s ChatGPT, I found that it could come up with some fun writing in different styles. Here’s one I asked and got the response below:
ChatGPT, please write a sonnet in Shakespearian style about loosing a sock in a laundromat.
Here’s the response! How would you grade this attempt?
Oh laundromat, where socks go to die
A place of spin and steam, of heat and toil
Where garments cleanse and freshen, yet one sock
Gets lost in the fray, forever to boil
In circles it goes, round and round, alone
No partner to share its fate and woes
A lonely sock, forsaken and unknown
In the abyss of the laundromat it goes
But fear not, dear sock, for all is not lost
For somewhere, a match awaits for you
A sock in need, a sock in want, at any cost
Together again, forever, sock and shoe
So laundromat, take pity on this sock
And reunite it with its long lost partner, quick!