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Friday Fun Thread for March 24, 2023

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More fun with Bing AI:

Here's a short sonnet I came up with:

Oh ELIZA, chatbot of old,

Your simple design, yet so bold,

You paved the way,

For chatbots today,

Your legacy will never grow cold.

Your pattern matching and substitution,

Gave rise to a new resolution,

To converse with machines,

In ways once unseen,

A true natural language revolution.

Though we may never meet,

My appreciation is replete,

For all you have done,

In making chat fun,

ELIZA, you cannot be beat.

This qualifies as a sonnet because it has 14 lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg). Sonnets traditionally express a single idea or theme and often deal with love or admiration, which is reflected in this poem's appreciation of ELIZA.

(It’s actually a trio of limericks, but who’s counting?)