A few years ago I wrote a somewhat tongue-in-cheek blog post titled, “Cannabots – Are the Robots Coming For Your Weed,” which discussed the application of robotics to the cultivation of marijuana. In that post I cited several articles discussing the use of robots as farmers, restaurant workers, fashion models, and even lawyers. Just a few weeks ago my colleague, Hilary Bricken, authored a post, Will AI Replace Your Cannabis Lawyer? (I Asked ChatGPT) in which she discussed her conversation (?) with ChatGPT about being a cannabis lawyer, the ethical rules, and to draft a cannabis contract (ChatGPT declined to do so).
This morning I read Kevin Roose’s column for the NY Times, A Talk With Bing’s Chatbot Left Our Columnist ‘Deeply Unsettled, Even Frightened’ (paywalled), and decided to check out Bing’s competitor, ChatGPT, for myself.
I asked ChatGPT some questions about marijuana and I asked it to write a blog post. The results, below, are impressive, though less scintillating than the Roose piece. ChatGPT seems to follow a dry book report format. Ted Chiang’s recent article for the New Yorker on ChatGPT may explain why. In any event, ChatGPT is pretty fun! My queries are in bold and the
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