Article 66HEQ No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you

No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you

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Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica)

Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep-learning AI model, uses its stored knowledge to simulate Linux with surprising results, including executing Python code and browsing virtual websites.

Last week, OpenAI made ChatGPT freely available during a testing phase, which has led to people probing its capabilities and weaknesses in novel ways.

On Saturday, a DeepMind research scientist named Jonas Degrave worked out how to instruct ChatGPT to act like a Linux shell by entering this prompt:

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