I think I’ve missed the point/purpose of this post. What exactly are you highlighting, that ChatGPT doesn’t know when to format text as code? It’s seemed to robustly know which formatting to use when I’ve interacted with it
I’ve started with two examples of text which aren’t code, and yet somehow it got formatted that way. Why does that happen? That doesn’t happen very often – I’ve got a Word doc that’s 100 pages long (35K words) consisting of copies of output from ChatGPT.
And then I ask it to produce some text and to format the result as code. It does it, which is what I asked. But how did it make the decisions it did about how to do that? Or why didn’t it just tell me, “you’re not asking for code, so code format doesn’t make sense.” In the case of that last Trump/Musk example, I didn’t prompt it to format it as code, but it did it anyway. Why? I note that earlier in that session I had asked it to write a simple sorting program, which it did, and I asked it to tell a story about Musk on Mars, in code format, which I did. But I didn’t ask for code format in that last case, and yet I got it.
There’s something very curious and interesting going on here. But there’s no specific point I had in mind beyond that.
I think I’ve missed the point/purpose of this post. What exactly are you highlighting, that ChatGPT doesn’t know when to format text as code? It’s seemed to robustly know which formatting to use when I’ve interacted with it
I’ve started with two examples of text which aren’t code, and yet somehow it got formatted that way. Why does that happen? That doesn’t happen very often – I’ve got a Word doc that’s 100 pages long (35K words) consisting of copies of output from ChatGPT.
And then I ask it to produce some text and to format the result as code. It does it, which is what I asked. But how did it make the decisions it did about how to do that? Or why didn’t it just tell me, “you’re not asking for code, so code format doesn’t make sense.” In the case of that last Trump/Musk example, I didn’t prompt it to format it as code, but it did it anyway. Why? I note that earlier in that session I had asked it to write a simple sorting program, which it did, and I asked it to tell a story about Musk on Mars, in code format, which I did. But I didn’t ask for code format in that last case, and yet I got it.
There’s something very curious and interesting going on here. But there’s no specific point I had in mind beyond that.