Years and years ago (70s?) I wrote one of those "I'll guess your xxxx" quiz programs, that asks questions about 'your animal' and tries to decide what it is. It works by parsing a tree of questions that it asks and your yes/no answers until it reaches a leaf node, then says "your animal is a xxxxx". If you respond that it isn't, it then asks for the correct answer, a question that will tell the difference between your answer and its guess, and whether the answer is yes or no for the correct answer. and saves that in it's database for next time. The next time around it knows the new animal.

Obviously that's much more simplistic than the ChatGPT robot, though the principles are similar.

It can go badly wrong, of course, if the answers given to the program are wrong/misleading/whatever. Some of our learned 'animals' were quite surreal, thanks to mistakes and mischief.


Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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