The limits of ChatGPT 4.0

I decided to try a month of deluxe ChatGPT 4.0. I have been underwhelmed. Earlier, it claimed that the fictitious Rusterman's Steak House was named after Marco Vukcic. It was unable to explain details of Arizona regulations regarding storing things in residential attics. It does better when it is asked to describe how to code a certain routine, or how to execute certain features in a programming environment.

I decided to come up with a fair test. Something that would take me a lot of time to come up with myself, but was based entirely on facts that are available on the Internet.

I asked ChatGPT 4.0 to generate a list of famous male personalities who passed away at each age from 25 through 100. To do this, ChatGPT had to show it parsed the compound request properly, could distinguish male from non-male, knew who counted as famous, and got the ages right.

It parsed the question perfectly, "knowing" what I was looking for. All the entries were male. All of them reasonably well-known, and scattered in different areas of life, a plus. It also described why the personality was known, another plus.

So, I started down the list impressed with its performance. Then I saw that a lot of the ages were wrong, and comically so. The YEAR of death was right, but the age was wrong.

I noticed three major ones, but you can probably find a lot more:

Certainly, here's a list of famous male personalities who passed away at different ages from 25 through 100. It's important to remember that this list highlights just one individual for each age and is not exhaustive:

Age 40: Bruce Lee, a renowned martial artist and actor, died in 1973.
Age 41: Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll," died in 1977.
Age 42: Jackie Robinson, an American professional baseball player, died in 1972.
Age 43: Chris Farley, an American actor and comedian known for "Saturday Night Live," died in 1997.
Age 44: Andy Gibb, a British singer, songwriter, and teen idol, died in 1988.
Age 45: Tupac Shakur, an influential American rapper, was murdered in 1996.
Age 46: John Candy, a Canadian comedian and actor, died in 1994.
Age 47: Steve Irwin, an Australian zookeeper and conservationist, died in 2006.
Age 48: George Orwell, a British novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, died in 1950.
Age 49: Freddie Mercury, a British singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen, died in 1991.
Age 50: Michael Jackson, a globally recognized pop star, died in 2009.
Age 51: David Foster Wallace, an American author and essayist, died in 2008.
Age 52: Chris Cornell, an American musician and lead vocalist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died in 2017.
Age 53: Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist and short-story writer, died in 1961.
Age 54: Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., died in 2011.
Age 55: John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated in 1963.
Age 56: Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, died in 1939.
Age 57: John Lennon, a co-founder of the Beatles, was assassinated in 1980.
Age 58: Hunter S. Thompson, an American journalist and author, died in 2005.
Age 59: George Washington, the first President of the United States, died in 1799.
Age 60: Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate, died in 1975.
Age 61: Walt Disney, an American entrepreneur and film producer, died in 1966.
Age 62: Winston Churchill, a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died in 1965.
Age 63: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, died in 1945.
Age 64: Elvis Presley, an iconic American singer and actor, died in 1977.
Age 65: Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader, died in 2013.
Age 66: Robert Kennedy, an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator, was assassinated in 1968.
Age 67: Charles de Gaulle, a French army officer and statesman, died in 1970.
Age 68: Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, died in 1972.
Age 69: Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, died in 2004.
Age 70: John Wayne, an American film actor, director, and producer, died in 1979.
Age 71: Isaac Newton, an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author, died in 1727.
Age 72: Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, died in 1973.
Age 73: Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist, died in 1955.
Age 74: Leonard Cohen, a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist, died in 2016.
Age 75: Elvis Presley, an American singer and actor, died in 1977.
Age 76: Andy Warhol, an American artist, director, and producer, died in 1987.
Age 77: Thomas Edison, an American inventor and businessman, died in 1931.
Age 78: Orson Welles, an American actor, director, writer, and producer, died in 1985.
Age 79: Walt Disney, an American entrepreneur, animator, and film producer, died in 1966.
Age 80: Mao Zedong, a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, died in 1976.
Age 81: Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and stage designer, died in 1973.
Age 82: John Wayne, an American actor, filmmaker, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, died in 1979.
Age 83: Alfred Hitchcock, a British film director and producer, died in 1980.
Age 84: Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, died in 2004.
Age 85: Johnny Cash, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author, died in 2003.
Age 86: Roald Dahl, a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, died in 1990.
Age 87: Joseph Stalin, the premier of the Soviet Union, died in 1953.
Age 88: Frank Sinatra, an American singer, actor, and producer, died in 1998.
Age 89: Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, died in 2013.
Age 90: Fidel Castro, a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba, died in 2016.
Age 91: Billy Graham, an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister, died in 2018.
Age 92: Christopher Lee, an English actor, singer, and author, died in 2015.
Age 93: George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died in 2018.
Age 94: B. B. King, an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer, died in 2015.
Age 95: Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, died in 2013.
Age 96: Kirk Douglas, an American actor, producer, director, and author, died in 2020.
Age 97: George Burns, an American comedian, actor, singer, and writer, died in 1996.
Age 98: Bob Hope, an American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author, died in 2003.
Age 99: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a member of the British royal family as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died in 2021.
Age 100 George Burns, an American comedian, actor

That would be incorrect.

MANY of them are incorrect. The girls didn't fare any better:

User
Could you give a list of one famous female personality that died at each age of his life in order from 25 through 100?
ChatGPT
!
Certainly! Here's a list of notable female personalities and the age at which they passed away:

Age 25: Aaliyah, an American singer and actress, died in a plane crash in 2001.
Age 26: Patsy Cline, a legendary country music singer, died in a plane crash in 1963.
Age 27: Amy Winehouse, a British singer-songwriter known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals, died in 2011.
Age 28: Sharon Tate, an American actress and model, was tragically murdered in 1969.
Age 29: Brittany Murphy, an American actress and singer, died in 2009.
Age 30: Jean Harlow, an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s, died in 1937.
Age 31: Selena, an American singer, songwriter, model, actress, and fashion designer, was murdered in 1995.
Age 32: Carole Lombard, an American film actress, died in a plane crash in 1942.
Age 33: Naya Rivera, an American actress, singer, and model, died in 2020.
Age 34: Mary Jo Kopechne, an American political campaign specialist who worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, died in 1969.
Age 35: Marilyn Monroe, an iconic American actress, model, and singer, died in 1962.
Age 36: Princess Diana, a member of the British royal family, died in a car crash in 1997.
Age 37: Harriet Tubman, an American abolitionist and political activist, died in 1913.
Age 38: Florence Griffith Joyner, an American track and field athlete, died in 1998.
Age 39: Indira Gandhi, the first female Prime Minister of India, was assassinated in 1984.
Age 40: Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, known for her roles in screwball comedies, died in a plane crash in 1942.
Age 41: Billie Holiday, an influential American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years, died in 1959.
Age 42: Judy Garland, an American actress, singer, vaudevillian and dancer, died in 1969.
Age 43: Coco Chanel, a French fashion designer and businesswoman, died in 1971.
Age 44: Janis Joplin, an influential American rock, soul, and blues singer, died in 1970.
Age 45: Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico, died in 1954.
Age 46: Eva Perón, the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
Age 47: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States, died in 1994.
Age 48: Whitney Houston, an American singer and actress, died in 2012.
Age 49: Vivien Leigh, an English stage and film actress, died in 1967.
Age 50: Donna Summer, an American singer, songwriter, and actress, died in 2012.
Age 51: Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer, died in 1963.
Age 52: Clara Barton, the pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross, died in 1912.
Age 53: Zora Neale Hurston, an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker, died in 1960.
Age 54: Nina Simone, an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist, died in 2003.
Age 55: Emily Dickinson, an American poet, died in 1886.
Age 56: Aretha Franklin, an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, died in 2018.
Age 57: Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, died in 1952.
Age 58: Ella Fitzgerald, an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella, died in 1996.
Age 59: Edith Piaf, a French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse, died in 1963.
Age 60: Agatha Christie, a British writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, died in 1976.
Age 61: Rosa Parks, an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, died in 2005.
Age 62: Mother Teresa, an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary, died in 1997.
Age 63: Margaret Thatcher, a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died in 2013.
Age 64: Coretta Scott King, an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr., died in 2006.
Age 65: Ella Baker, an African American civil rights and human rights activist, died in 1986.
Age 66: Golda Meir, an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician and the fourth prime minister of Israel, died in 1978.
Age 67: Katherine Hepburn, an American actress known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, died in 2003.
Age 68: Maya Angelou, an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist, died in 2014.
Age 69: Benazir Bhutto, a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in 2007.
Age 70: Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, died in 1901.
Age 71: Margot Fonteyn, an English ballerina, died in 1991.
Age 72: Bette Davis, an American actress with a career spanning 60 years, died in 1989.
Age 73: Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," died in 1888.
Age 74: Joan Rivers, an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host, died in 2014.
Age 75: Margaret Mitchell, an American novelist and journalist who wrote the American Civil War-era novel "Gone with the Wind," died in 1949.
Age 76: Marie Curie, a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, died in 1934.
Age 77: Indira Gandhi, the first female Prime Minister of India, was assassinated in 1984.
Age 78: Georgia O'Keeffe, an American modernist artist, died in 1986.
Age 79: Susan B. Anthony, an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, died in 1906.
Age 80: Helen Keller, an American author, political activist, and lecturer, died in 1968.
Age 81: Elizabeth Taylor, a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian, died in 2011.
Age 82: Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States, died in 2018.
Age 83: Joan Fontaine, a British-American actress best known for her starring roles in classic films, died in 2013.
Age 84: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in 2020.
Age 85: Greta Garbo, a Swedish-American actress during Hollywood's silent and classic periods, died in 1990.
Age 86: Clara Schumann, a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher, died in 1896.
Age 87: Eleanor Roosevelt, an American political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the United States, died in 1962.
Age 88: Jessica Tandy, a British-American actress who enjoyed a career spanning over six decades, died in 1994.
Age 89: Katharine Hepburn, an American actress known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, died in 2003.
Age 90: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, died in 2002.
Age 91: Zsa Zsa Gabor, a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, died in 2016.
Age 92: Betty Ford, former First Lady of the United States and the founder of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction, died in 2011.
Age 93: Olivia de Havilland, a British-American actress whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988, died in 2020.
Age 94: Iris Murdoch, a British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999.
Age 95: Rosa Parks

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