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From composing a leave note in the style of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is an excellent orator, to helping a student write an essay that got him a passing grade at a leading UK university, Artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has left netizens shocked with its ‘talents’. Now, a Twitter user’s prompt to the conversational chatbot to explain climate change in William Shakespeare’s language is the latest of its creations to go viral.
In a Twitter thread, Dan Miller shared ChatGPT’s response and the 28-line poem is quite impressive with the usage of complex words, imagery and rhythm.
In it, ChatGPT describes global warming as “warming in our skies, A change that doth the very earth beset, And causeth all in sundry ways to fret.” Referring to industrialisation and burning of gases, the AI chatbot writes, “In days of yore, when men didst burn with greed, The blackened stone and ebon oils did feed.” Poetically, the chatbot referred to humans’ “lust for progress, wealth and might” which led to the havoc.
The third stanza describes the emission of carbon dioxide and invisible, noxious gas that the earth ridicules. Further, weaving in the concept of greenhouse effect, the lines read, “Forsooth, this gas, with others of its kin, Doth form a veil ’round all the world so thin That traps the sun’s warm rays within its fold, And causeth Mother Earth to sweat untold.”
The poem also mentions the rising temperatures, melting of ice, rising sea levels, storm and drought that impact “mortal lives”. Towards the last two paragraphs, the verses warn about the consequences of “mankind’s folly great” and also shells out some advice to refrain from acts that harm the earth. The last two lines read, “Embrace the power of sun and wind and wave, And strive, dear friends, our noble world to save.”
ChatGPT’s poem impressed netizens and some users expressed their fear over the tool’s overarching abilities. A user commented, “That is quite amazing.” Another user wrote, “Holy moly, this is great.” A third user wrote, “Wow. That’s both incredible and almost alarming if AI came up with that.”
