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Write a short rhyming poem explaining Einstein's theory of general relativity in easy but accurate terms

If you want to understand Einstein's thought

It's not that hard if you give it a shot

General Relativity is the name of the game

Where space and time cannot remain the same

Mass affects the curvature of space

Which affects the flow of time's race

An object's motion will be affected

By the distortion that is detected

The closer you are to a large mass

The slower time will seem to pass

The farther away you may be

Time will speed up for you to see

first try with that prompt... yeah davinci-3 is awesome

btw "If" was also part of the prompt

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I prompted the model to re-write the poem in Keats' style by adding: "How would Keats write this?"

Output:

Oh, what a wondrous force of might

That Einstein's mind did conjure up

To show us how the fabric of space

Is so profoundly warp and sup

Mass doth affect the shape of time

And cause our clocks to slow or speed

For time and space are linked together

As our great minds have here decreed

Prompt: https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/Pcw6JMJxxgzbqvDAvI3Pc3i...

That’s brilliant.

> Mass doth affect the shape of time.

This sounds like it should be on needle point in a physicists study.

Am I the only one whose brain is fully blown by seeing stuff like this? It feels strange to look at that kind of output from an algorithm and just shrug one's shoulders with apathy.

No, this is utterly amazing and leads to 1000 more amazing things down the line

Well, unless that poem has been in the training data, I guess?

It will now

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22General+Relativity+is+the...

and as awesome it is, it cannot get a copyright.

Hallelujah!

This doesn't scan. 'Where space and time cannot remain the same' is hyper-metrical, for example. The 'flow' of a 'race' makes no actual sense. It's like a five year old's tawdry attempts at poetry in crayon. Get off the AI bandwagon for your own soul, poetry is an organic thing.

I look forward to a future that includes a "rap-battle Turing test".

Stole your promt and replaced it with a turing machine.

"Write a short rhyming poem explain a turing machine in easy but accurate terms"

A Turing machine is quite a feat

It can compute things quite discrete

It helps us solve problems of all sorts

And keeps us from feeling like we're in a court

It can be represented with a tape

And even replaced if we feel the need to escape

It's a model of computation to which we can relate

Seems pretty good. Though rhyming 'thought' with 'shot' seems like a really weird dialect of English to me. Does it rhyme in American English?

(I was recently bemused when I learned that Americans rhyme macabre with job.)

> Though rhyming 'thought' with 'shot' seems like a really weird dialect of English to me. Does it rhyme in American English?

Yep, rhymes pretty well in the American accents I can think of, including my own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger explains the difference.

Lol I am not American and when I read it I thought it was pronouncing "thought" as "thot".

It pretty much is, by my dialect of English those are the same :)

Yes, it does rhyme in American English

Thanks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger describes the background.

kind of

Can you provide a word that in your mind rhymes with each of thought and shot? Even in different accents I can picture, these always rhyme in my head.

I'd say, shot rhymes with hot. Thought rhymes with bought or fought.

I'm German, and have lived in Britain, Australia and now Singapore. So my English idiolect is, of course, a bit weird. However, I would pronounce 'thought' like the London sample in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thought#Pronunciation They give that as /θɔːt/.

I realize that the American sample on that page does indeed rhyme with 'hot'. They give that as /θɑt/ and blame the 'Cot–caught merger' also known as the 'LOT–THOUGHT merger' which would explain everything.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger

Also useful for describing accents: see "lexical sets" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lexical_set&oldid...

Of interest here are:

• The LOT set (stop, sock, dodge, romp, possible, quality) (+ shot, hot, cot, bot…),

and

• The THOUGHT set (taught, sauce, hawk, jaw, broad) (+ caught, bought…)

(For those without the merger, there's also the CLOTH set of words (cough, broth, cross, long, Boston) which fall in either the LOT set or the THOUGHT set depending on the specific accent.)

This exchange just blew my mind a little and triggered an extended conversation in my household.

Reading the poem, I was also thrown off because I’m on team shot/hot and thought/bought.

Shot/thought rhymes for my partner though.

Both of us are from the US but opposite coasts.

It’s American to not give a shit about any of this and rhyme whatever we want

I assume your comment rhymes in American?

     It’s American to not give a shit
     about any of this and rhyme
     whatever we want

Ants

Write a song about Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer taking revenge on the other reindeer who bullied him

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Reminds me of Data's poetry. (Ode to Spot)

If pugs fly then yes to the color blue

Write a short poem about lost love

How would bob Dylan write this?

Write a song about war and peace

write a short rhyming poem explaining a tensor

Make me a poem

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