ChatGPT Shows Surprising Foresight When Prompted to Imagine Future Stories
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Study shows ChatGPT can make surprisingly accurate predictions when prompted to generate imaginative "future narratives" rather than direct forecasts.
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Creating fictional stories set in the future allows the AI to leverage its "hallucinatory capabilities" and extrapolate patterns from training data.
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Narrative prompting appears to bypass constraints on speculative predictions, tapping into sophisticated predictive potential.
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Fictional framing provides creative freedom for the AI to uncover insights it might otherwise avoid.
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"Hallucinatory" abilities of large language models, when creatively prompted, may unlock new frontiers of AI exploration and discovery.