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The night my daughter asked to talk to ChatGPT at bedtime
She hopped into bed and asked, and I wasn't ready. Here's what I said.
She was in bed with the lights low, and she asked, "Mom, can I talk to ChatGPT?" My first instinct was to say no, but I stopped myself.
What I told her
"It's a computer program that guesses what word should come next. Even when it sounds completely sure of itself, it's really just guessing every single time."
We used it together, and we asked it something she already knew the answer to. It made something up, completely confidently, and she laughed and said, "It lied!" "It didn't lie," I said. "It just guessed." And just like that, she understood something I'd been trying to figure out how to explain.