If you've heard it once in a president's State of the Union address, you've heard it a hundred times: There's nothing the American people can't accomplish when they band together.
But you haven't heard that concept in a William Shakespeare State of the Union address: "Lo," says the poet. "With kindness, love, and clear understanding, we shall conquer anything and have nothing to fear."
Neither do the Three Stooges of the previous century: "We just put our brains together, came up with an idea, and bang! "The issue has been resolved!"
Let's face it: most State of the Union speeches are rote. Presidents deliver a list of successes, a few anecdotes about visitors in attendance, a somber appraisal of the day's issues, and a crescendo about glory days ahead.
To mix up the formula ahead of President Joe Biden's speech to Congress on Tuesday night, The Associated Press asked the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to create State of the Union speeches written by some of history's greatest brains, as well as some stooges.
ChatGPT was also asked to channel singer Elvis Presley, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, the ground-breaking NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, the abolitionist Sojourner Truth, and baseball’s Yogi Berra, among other luminaries.
We also wanted to see what a bright, unidentified 10-year-old might say to the assembled lawmakers.
The app is part of a new generation of AI systems that can converse in human-like fashion and generate text on demand based on what they’ve learned from a vast database of digital books, online writings and other media. It petrifies teachers who fear their students will use it instead of their brains for school papers.
ChatGPT rendered Shakespeare’s State of the Union speech in rhyme, scrolling on the screen faster than anyone could read it. The version channeling comedian Jerry Seinfeld captured his verbal mannerisms and signature phrasings.
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