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Donald Knuth Asked ChatGPT 20 Questions. What Did We Learn?

It seems like everyone’s https://thenewstack.io/using-chatgpt-for-questions-specific-to-your-company-data/ — including mathematician and https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuth-on-machine-learning-and-the-meaning-of-life/ Donald Knuth. Inspired by a conversation with https://thenewstack.io/stephen-wolfram-new-kind-data-science/, Knuth conducted “my own little experiment” on April 7 — and recently https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt. Knuth tested what appeared to be ChatGPT-3.5 with a suite of 20 prompts — including some trick questions, like “Who wrote Beethoven’s 10th Symphony?”

Knuth concluded his experiment by telling Stephen Wolfram, “I totally understand why you and others have been paying attention to it.”

More than half a century later, 85-year-old Donald Knuth now posed the same question to a modern AI-powered chatbot in 2023.