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Sun Tzu on ChatGPT-4

3/14/2023

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Open AI just released their new version -- ChatGPT-4 -- today!

I've already heard many wonderful things about it. The upgrade is supposed to be exponential, not linear. So I'm already expecting great answers to questions I have some knowledge on: Sun Tzu's Art of War.

So let's start with the first one:
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Well done. This question requires some objectivity and subjectivity and ChatGPT-4 performed admirably.

​Next question is more subjective:
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For a subjective question, the answer can't be much better.

​Next question is tricky but wholly objective:
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As Alex Trebek would say: "Correct!"

This is the most common question about Sun Tzu's Art of War:
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I absolutely agree with #1, Thomas Cleary. I cannot argue with #2, Griffith, a very popular version since the 1960s. It was Griffith’s book I first came across the word Sonshi. Huang is an interesting #3, but still not off, because Huang was the first to divide and discuss The Art of War verse by verse, making his translation quite open and transparent. Not bad, especially for your different way of thinking, ChatGPT-4!

Here's a question that is from left field:
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You won me over, ChatGPT-4. Completely.

​Do you know me?
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Thank you, ​ChatGPT-4.
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Trey Davjs
3/14/2023 09:00:07 pm

Fascinating.

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Thomas Huynh link
3/14/2023 10:36:23 pm

The answer on Thomas Cleary was the most fascinating to me. It’s as if a real person wrote it, understanding my feelings exactly. From such a simple sentence the AI understood.

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