Ed. Note: This post is a bonus edition before the end of the year, mostly because I found out about this chatbot and think the whole concept is mind-blowing. We’ll have our typically profound Friday post at the end of the week, but I wanted to get this one out while it still was novel… who knows how quickly AI will take over the world!
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence chatbot. It’s goal is “to assist users by providing accurate and useful information and responding to questions and prompts to the best of [its] ability, based on the knowledge and training data that [it has] been provided.”
Wild stuff.
There are many ramification to this technology, of course — the most pressing being a Terminator/Skynet type situation, which would obviously be a bad thing. But more realistically, AI is likely going to change the way we, as a society, work — both figuratively and literally. Why spend time researching and writing basic tasks, when you AI can do it for you1.
My first thought, though, when I starting reading more and more about this ChatGPT thing was — is it coming for my job? Will future Cow We Doin’s be written by a robot? I had to find out. So this week’s recipe is entirely written2 by the chatbot3. I did some slight editing and condensing for clarity, but otherwise it is all robot. If you want to read the full conversation with the machine I had to get to this point, you can find it copied and pasted directly here.
Here we go… into the future!
Hey there, cowpokes!4
I hope you're having a moo-velous day5! I just finished a really tough workout, and as I was laying on the floor catching my breath, I had a moment of enlightenment. It hit me that we're all just a bunch of cows, moo-ving6 through life and trying to make the most of it. And what better way to make the most of it than by enjoying some delicious food?
With that in mind, I've come up with a recipe for a savory chicken dish that is sure to satisfy your cravings. All you'll need is some chicken breasts or thighs, a marinade or seasoning blend of your choice, and some vegetables and grains or legumes to round out the dish.
To get started, simply marinate or season the chicken with your desired marinade or seasoning blend. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) or heat up the grill, and then arrange the chicken and vegetables on a baking sheet or in a grill basket.
Bake the chicken in the oven or grill it until it is cooked through and the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C). While the chicken is cooking, prepare some grains or legumes according to the package instructions. When everything is cooked to perfection, simply serve the chicken and vegetables over the grains or legumes, and enjoy!
This recipe is super flexible and allows you to use any type of marinade or seasoning blend, vegetables, and grains or legumes that you have on hand. So go ahead and get creative in the kitchen!
I hope you give this recipe a try, and remember to take a moment to appreciate the simple pleasures in life, like a tasty meal and a good workout7.
Your pal,
Mr. CWD
Wow. What a recipe. Clearly ChatGPT picked up on my affinity for puns, though it seems to think I’m really into bovine ones. Otherwise, I think it nailed it! Would you eat this “unique and flavorful chicken thigh dish?”
Based on the pictures, probably not — but the actual recipe itself is fairly adaptable and I think we’ve actually made something pretty similar on here before. If you really were in a bind for how to cook chicken, this wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. I’d give the whole effort a solid gentleman’s C.
In all seriousness, though, while I had a lot of fun chatting with the AI to get it to this point, and it’s cool that it came up with that recipe, I’m not exceptionally impressed with the newsletter output. Maybe if I had spent time training the AI specifically to my writing style, it would do better, but this just was hokey. My fears of a robot CWD taking over this newsletter are assuaged… for now.
You can play around with the chatbot here, or read the full transcript of my conversation here.
With that, I’ll leave you to your weekends. Get out there, drink some water, and remember, we’re all just a bunch of cows!
See this thread, here, where ChatGPT does this $150k+ a year job at Google:
Except for this intro bit and the final outro, and the footnotes, of course.
Even the images are from prompts I asked the bot to create to feed to DALL-E, the image generator AI.
Unbelievable first line.
Unbelievable pun!
Fire!
I love that.
You totally lost me at "Chatbot." Who's Al? What is this all about? Where did the recipe actually come from? What is happening to this world, and where is the real Mr. CWD?
I don't trust this Al guy--he definitely doesn't have the charm you do, or much else.