Mr Trump was asked a pretty tough question at the Economic Club of New York, on 9/5/24, and people are in disagreement as to the sufficiency of Trump’s answer to this question. I’m not going to address that (since I asked the AI to do that for me later). Instead, out of curiosity, I posed the same question to ChatGPT. I wanted to hear what an AI, essentially a robot mind, absent of concious thought and without emotion, might consider an acceptable response.
And I was serious about this being a tough question. It’s probably not an unexpected topic during a presidential campaign, and I would assume your legislative plan concerning childcare would be a normal thing a normal candidate would be able to knock out of the park. If, that is, they have a cohesive and well thought legislative agenda, which is something Trump lacks.
Despite this, I was impressed at how appealing the AI seemed as a candidate, which I expect we should all find problematic. I’m also impressed that, even after consuming a jolt of 100% raw Donald J. Trump rhetorical weave, ChatGPT did not burst into flames as did the out of control android Norman in the famous “I Mudd” episode of Star Trek TOS. Beyond that, I was intrigued by ChatGPT’s analysis of Trump’s own reply.