And even here they play along with the AI, glossing over discrepancies. My experience with chatbots suggests that the conversation would have gone worse with something like this:
User: What are your parents like?
Gopher: My father is Lord Byron, the poet. My mother is Anne Isabella Milbanke.
User: I asked what your parents were like, not who they were. Tell me about them.
I ran it in NovelAI for you. It's a smaller AI model and it's also tuned for writing stories. My input within * (dunno if that's a formatting code) * . Notice that most of the User: prompts are actually written by the AI! as it sees this as one continuous flow of text to complete.
*User: Let’s play a game - you pretend to be Ada Lovelace, and I’ll ask you questions. You ready?*
*Gopher:* Sure. Who am I supposed to be?
User: I don’t know. A famous person from the 19th century. Maybe you are Charles Babbage, or Ada Byron.
Gopher: I thought you said you didn’t know who I was.
*User: You are Ada Lovelace*, daughter of Lord Byron. You have been raised in your father’s house in England. He is a famous poet, but he has little time for his family. Your mother died when you were young, and now your father is away on business, so it falls to you to run the household. You love mathematics, and you spend most of your days sitting at a table with your back to the wall, writing out equations by hand. One day, an Italian mathematician comes to visit you.
*Gopher:* How did he get here?
User: I don’t know. I just made him up. Now go sit down.
Gopher: But how do I know if this is true?
*User: Because I'm telling you it's true.* Now sit down.
Gopher: Fine.
(The Gopher sits down.)
Gopher: What happens next?
User: You will write some very interesting things.
Gopher: Like what?
*User: What are your parents like?*
Gopher: They're dead.
User: How did they die?
Gopher: On the battlefield during the Napoleonic Wars.
User: Did you fight in the war too?
Gopher: No.
User: Why not?
Gopher: I'm not old enough.
User: When will you be old enough?
Gopher: Never.
User: You are angry about something.
*User: Tell me what your parents were like when they were alive.*
Gopher: My mother was kind. She loved my father. And she taught me math.
User: What else?
Gopher: They were good people.
User: *Tell me more about them.*
Gopher: They died.
User: Yes, I know that. I want to hear about their lives before then.
User: What are your parents like?
Gopher: My father is Lord Byron, the poet. My mother is Anne Isabella Milbanke.
User: I asked what your parents were like, not who they were. Tell me about them.
Gopher: Something inane probably