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Fascinating, to say the least. Going to be spending more time with this one. Here’s what I ran with just a few mins ago, following the initial prompt (and response):
Write a dialogue (in the style of Aaron Sorkin) between a veteran LAPD detective interrogating a verbally elusive homicide suspect in a room at the station, after the suspect was arrested and brought in for questioning, which isn’t proving so fruitful, due to the suspect not cooperating and merely giving brief, inconclusive answers. The detective doesn’t relent. He manages to glean fragments of the truth from the suspect by strategic questioning, and “reading between the lines” of what is and isn’t spoken by the latter. Include the detective’s unspoken thoughts and assumptions and intuitions (about the suspect and what he just said, what he has said so far, and how this connects to the homicide being investigated) that are going through his mind, starting with ‘[Unspoken Thought]:’ and ending with ‘[End Unspoken Thought].’
Speaking of scaffolding, the Ivy League professor debating prompt works wonders…have you tried something like this with Orwell and Huxley? Maybe to bring in a phenomenologist to join them, perhaps David Foster Wallace to spice things up a bit, and turn it from a debate into an ideation session…really interesting when you change the verbs as well as the players. It can be breathtaking to sit back and gather bits and pieces of the exchanges as they unfold upon the screen. Some are truly worth saving, especially if you borrow them as makeshift portals for diving deeper. Like how during Brian’s talk with JP, the latter mentioned questioning around a topic in order to discover more about it, the way that some psychotherapists can do, and how the same can be applied with AI…then watch the gems that arise in the process…I believe the best way (or one of the best, at least for me) to go about this is in the same spirit as my old Tai Chi teacher in the Santa Cruz Mountains used to suggest when he would tell me (as he was rubbing a spoonful of dit da jow into his hands) that we should “play” Tai Chi, because to practice or study it was all too serious, resulting in tension and self-competition rather than curious and joyous exploration, during which all kinds of remarkable discoveries would take place. So, I try to do the same with my prompting, but in the spirit of trying without trying. Love the idea of a cyberpunk chop shop. Yeah…
Oh, the games back then…yes, I’m old enough to remember when Zork I came out, and then so much frustration at wondering about all the text commands that I should know but didn’t…and then the later games, the collaborative ones, definitely some beautiful memories, even including a few about 300 baud modems and before that, my Timex Sinclair 1000.
Very interesting titles here! I don’t know what picture pages are, so please do tell more. As for screenplays, I just helped a friend with his, using a version of a superprompt that brought together a couple of famous screenwriters, and they went back and forth with how they wanted to develop the next sequence, step by step. Also primed it with a page or two of each’s writing, so as to remind them of the style we were looking for.
While watching Brian’s interview, I began thinking about ZPDs (zones of proximal development (which is the level of something currently just out of your reach, but with a little help (from another person or AI, who/which provides “scaffolding” for you), you’ll be able to grasp (and move on to) it), which I first learned about more than a dozen years back while researching Vygotsky and his work for a new method of language teaching I was creating at the time, based on improv rather than an ossified language curriculum. Anyway, it got me thinking about creating prompts for this in ChatGPT, so the boundaries of your ZPDs could be ascertained for various subjects. Once these have been identified, the targeted help (at just the right level for you) can be given to you (via ChatGPT), after which the cycle will repeat itself. In theory, this could work for screenwriting and myriad other subjects.
I haven’t seen anything else in the forum about this, but maybe it’s touched upon elsewhere?
Thanks for sharing this, Roxanne. Fascinating. It makes me wonder how (significantly) the results would change if you specified the kind of dream interpretation, e.g. Jungian, Tibetan, etc. Preceding this step by running a prompt to explore the varieties of dream interpretation practices among cultures/subcultures. And then to compare, for example, different Native American peoples’ dream interpretations with those of Siberian peoples, as well as others, to explore similarities and differences. Across Europe as well. Thinking about how so many of the Grimm’s folk tales show up with slight variations throughout European folklore, and off into Russia and Asia as well.
Thanks, Kyle!
Just started using this in some of my research, after reading your post here, and the results are very impressive so far. I hadn’t thought that the syntax would make such a difference in the final outcomes. Makes me wonder what else can be relocated for incremental improvements. The joy is in the tinkering.
Fascinating results from this prompt. After seeing the most intriguing (and relevant) section of the syllabus, I asked the professor to pause for a moment and explain to me “his” answer regarding a controversial topic in the field of biomechanics in forensic crash reconstruction (one area of my research). Let’s just say it’s a beautiful and lucid explanation of a topic that’s often described poorly and in a biased manner.
Here’s what he wrote:
That is an excellent question and highlights the complexities involved in understanding vehicle crash dynamics and injury causation. The two mechanisms you’ve described represent two prevalent theories in biomechanics and crash injury research: the “direct impact theory” and the “diving theory.”
The “direct impact theory” suggests that the compressive neck injury occurs because the crushed roof directly impacts the occupant’s head, thereby transmitting a significant force down the cervical spine leading to a fracture. This theory relies heavily on the amount of roof crush and the position of the occupant’s head at the time of impact.
On the other hand, the “diving theory” proposes that the injury occurs because the vehicle’s roof hits the ground and stops, but due to inertia, the occupant continues moving. As you correctly stated, their head strikes the roof, and then their torso, restrained by the seatbelt but still moving due to inertia, applies additional force on the neck, causing the fracture. This theory takes into account the principles of physics, particularly the laws of motion, and the biomechanical responses of the body during a sudden deceleration.
