ChatGPT is now pretending to be a Linux machine
The chatbot taking the AI world by storm can now play the role of a Linux computer if you want it to
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ChatGPT, the AI poweredchatbotcurrently taking the world by storm, is even able to simulate aLinuxenvironment.
Powered byOpenAI- the research company launched by Elon Musk and backed byMicrosoft- the discovery of its acting credentials was recently made during an open testing phase, allowing anyone to play around with it.
To prepare for the role, ChatGPT made use of information fed into it as part of its initial training data. These likely included extracts from Linux manuals and real-life logs of shell sessions.
Playing the part
Jonas Degrave, a researcher at DeepMind who made the discovery, told ChatGPT quite plainly that he wanted it to pretend to be a Linux terminal, and to respond to his typed commands as a Linux terminal would. The chatbot duly complied, responding in code block format as a terminal would.
ChatGPT works by determining the most likely words to follow from the previous words in the conversation, eventually drawing on the entire conversation history when further prompts are made.
ChatGPT wholly immersed itself in the part of a Linux machine, going as far as executingPythoncode. Degrave gave it a simple calculation written in the Python language and it responded with the correct answer.
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Another user of ChatGPT managed to get it to simulate an old Bulletin board system (BBS), all the way from pretending to dial-up a modem to creating a make-believe chatroom with a make-believe chatter called Lisa.
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OpenAI and ChatGPT have been lighting up the world of AI recently with all sorts of surprising and quirky results, from pretending to be an ATM to explainingEinstein’s theory of general relativity in the form of a rhyming poem.
When it comes to more vital tasks, however, such as gleaning factually accurate information, ChatGPT is less effective, with commentators pointing out that its novel outputs can be equally nonsensical as they can be accurate, depending on the user’s inputs.
Lewis Maddison is a Reviews Writer for TechRadar. He previously worked as a Staff Writer for our business section, TechRadar Pro, where he had experience with productivity-enhancing hardware, ranging from keyboards to standing desks. His area of expertise lies in computer peripherals and audio hardware, having spent over a decade exploring the murky depths of both PC building and music production. He also revels in picking up on the finest details and niggles that ultimately make a big difference to the user experience.
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