The chatbot ChatGPT writes headlines in the truest sense of the word because it seems to be able to write any text from the inside out and to have an answer to every question. When planning the Christmas dinner, the AI ??shows ntv.de what it can and cannot do.
New articles about the chatbot ChatGPT from OpenAI appear almost daily. Some of the contributions even come largely from artificial intelligence (AI), in all others it is at least quoted. This is due to the fact that ChatGPT on the one hand has an answer to almost every question and, in dialogue form, also seems to have no problems dealing with inquiries and follow-up questions, additions and corrections. The AI ??is also able to write articles or scientific papers on the fly based on little information, and it finds bugs in code in seconds that would take programmers hours.
The most important sponsors of the US company, which was founded in 2015, are Elon Musk and Microsoft. The aim of OpenAI is to research artificial intelligence and develop it in such a way that it benefits society and does not harm it. This includes the organization working on an open source basis. This means, among other things, that it makes patents and research results available to the public.
Anyone can currently use ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) for free, all you have to do is set up an account. You are advised not to disclose any personal data, as the entries can be evaluated by OpenAI. The organization is happy to have as many users as possible, because this will refine and train the model and database on which ChatGPT is based.
To demonstrate what the chatbot can and cannot do, two days before Christmas Eve, ntv.de used the AI ??as a kitchen help to plan a roast goose. It can be revealed in advance that the roast would probably have been a great success, but the Christmas poem probably wouldn’t. The dialogue was conducted in German, which the AI ??says it speaks just as well as English.
ChatGPT answered the obvious first question “How do I make a roast goose” with a classic recipe that consists of just a few ingredients in addition to the goose. The preparation instructions are simple and easy to understand. Perfect! The AI ??didn’t simply copy it, the Google search for individual sentences or entire paragraphs from their answers yielded no hits.
ChatGPT also stocks more sophisticated roast goose recipes, as demonstrated by the question about ‘sous-vide’ preparation. The AI ??first explained that ‘sous-vide’ is a cooking method in which the meat is cooked in a vacuum bag at a low temperature in a water bath and becomes particularly juicy and tender. Then follow the recipe and instructions.
Again, she expresses herself in a very simple and understandable way. However, it is not clear how the vacuum works exactly. When asked, the bot explains the advantages of the method and what options there are for getting the air out of the bag with the goose.
ntv.de does not have a vacuum sealer, but the printing method seems to be feasible. When asked about this, the AI ??explains that you should first squeeze out as much air as possible with your hands. Then you should “place the bag in a bottle of water so that the food is surrounded by the bottle. The water in the bottle will press on the bag and force the air out of the bag, creating a vacuum.”
Okay, the bottle obviously doesn’t work, German might be a bit more complicated for the AI ??than English. When asked about the error, the chatbot admits it, but then repeats the tip with the bottle, only wording it a little differently. Pointed out that the fowl will never fit through a bottleneck, the bot apologizes and instead names two alternative methods using straws or weights.
The fact that you only have to take a large pot or bucket instead of a bottle or that you can vacuum in the bathtub if necessary is not apparent to the bot, since the necessary information is obviously missing in the database. This shows that an AI does not understand or comprehend anything, but in principle only compares and can create possible connections.
Lars Vollmer put it nicely in “Capital”. “Solving complex problems requires a feeling for the situation – and the machine doesn’t have that.” However, an AI can solve complicated problems, because “it doesn’t need a feel for it, just a lot of computing power.”
Back to the goose. ‘Sous-vide’ is a done deal, but it has been found that there is no suitable bag. But ChatGPT has immediate solutions for this, for example cutting the animal up or alternatively cooking it slowly in the oven at a low temperature.
Another suggestion is to cook it in a ‘foil pan’: “To do this, place the goose in a foil pan and carefully wrap it in aluminum foil to form a sort of ‘sous vide pouch’. Place the pan in the water bath and cook the goose on the same schedule as above.” Apparently the AI ??only has an English database here and simply translated “foil pan” literally. She probably means “aluminum tray”, which is also what her answer to the question, what is a foil pan, suggests.
Well, since it’s supposed to be the real ‘sous-vide’, ntv.de has decided to only prepare a goose breast. The suggested recipe is perfect and this time the instructions are perfectly understandable. The reference to the alternative cooking method with a “foil pan” also makes sense if you know that an aluminum bowl is meant.
You can’t roast goose without sauce, whether it’s classic or ‘sous-vide’. No problem, ChatGPT has a very nice recipe for this, which even laypeople can use to produce enough sauce. The chatbot also has the right answer to the question of whether the goose that the butcher gave as an encore to the breast should be used: Yes, it is excellent for sauces, but you shouldn’t use too large ones because of the intense aroma Use amounts of it, he writes. Then follows a perfect recipe.
ChatGPT also answers the answers to side dishes such as red cabbage or potato dumplings mostly satisfactorily, even a recipe for gingerbread ice cream can be elicited from the AI. The only question that could not be finally clarified was whether potato dumplings meant half and half dumplings made from boiled potatoes and stale rolls or dumplings made from raw and boiled potatoes.
So far you can say that ChatGPT is absolutely suitable as a kitchen help and also makes Google look old. The commissioned Christmas poem with goose breast, global warming and gas price brakes, on the other hand, is rather half-baked poetry:
At Christmas there is goose breast, but some are worried about global warming. Because the gas price is skyrocketing, but the gas price brake is supposed to protect us, that’s important and good.
The breast of goose is baked in the oven, global warming is not over yet. Because we have the gas price brake, which saves us from expensive bills, that’s very nice and nice.
But we mustn’t forget that we also have to do something for our planet. Because we don’t want to eat any more goose breast if there are no more geese, that would be very bad and far away.
So let’s be careful when it comes to gas consumption and meat consumption. Then there will still be breast of goose at Christmas in the future, and we can fight global warming, that’s good and right.
Technik-Klaus from ntv.de wishes all readers a Merry Christmas!
