Christmas
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A humanities researcher puts AI bot ChatGPT through a few tests, with mostly laughable results and one promising potential use.
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“Walls sweat out as rain seeps in / Flashes of pain and mischief”
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“I watch the red that dot your skin, / Like spots of rain on dusty brims,”
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“It is cold but not too cold / Winter has come but withdrawn its bite”
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“Oh here you are / Growing from nothing”
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“‘Twas the night before Christmas, as I laid in my bed / Although it was quiet outside, many thoughts stirred my head;”
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Translated into over 300 languages, it originates in a small Austrian village, having been written for a poverty-stricken and traumatized congregation.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 was the final happy memory some soldiers would have. Today, in our polarized culture, ‘Joyeux Noël’ reminds us to soften…