You'd have thought a "hands-on" guy would have been capable of using the keyboard and typing his own ChatGPT prompts rather than asking a grad student to do it! He could then have tried to ask some follow-up questions and begun to do a more meaningful evaluation than seeing if he can come up with a 10 word "gotcha" prompt.

I assume he specifically did NOT do that because he did not want to “pollute” himself in some way. He just wanted to see how it did.

This was more of a fun diversion for him than a scientific study.

Evidentially so, but bizarre that someone like that never had the curiosity to try it at all before last month, and then gives it such a perfunctory test!

Imagine if an alien visitor was captured, and it took David Attenborough 6 months to show any interest and send his intern off to check it out.

Because lots of what he thinks about happens away from the computer.

He’s good with computer but he’s also good away from the computer.