Comment by mikequinlan
1 year ago
Me: what is the title of the Stanislaw Lem story about the stubborn computer
ChatGPT: The Stanislaw Lem story you are referring to is likely "The Seventh Sally" ("Siodma sally" in Polish). It's a short story that appears in Lem's collection titled "Mortal Engines" ("Śmierć człowieka w kotle" in Polish). In "The Seventh Sally," a stubborn computer named Faleńczyk becomes the focus of the narrative, showcasing Lem's exploration of artificial intelligence and its implications.
See, that's the thing: It incorrectly guessed the wrong story from Cyberiad with me too! Twice! Then it incorrectly guessed it was in a different real book of fictitious reviews of non-existent stories, Imaginary Magnitude, even though it was a real story! So I asked it to write a fictitious review of the fictitious story it was hallucinating was a real story in a different real book of real stories, and it did.
"The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good" is the story that inspired Will Wright to create SimCity, but it's not the one with the recalcitrant numerically incorrect computer.
https://chat.openai.com/share/9a9e9818-1e23-488e-b517-6d23e3...