Satya Nadella asks ChatGPT for best south Indian tiffins. And then...

Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Bengaluru on January 5.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently put the AI chatbot ChatGPT to test by asking it for a list of the most popular South Indian tiffins -- light breakfast or  tea-time meals.

The answers were obvious -- idli, dosa, vada, pongal and uttapam. But there was also one response that Nadella, and most Indians, would disagree with.

The chatbot included "biryani" in the list of popular South Indian tiffins.

Satya Nadella in Bengaluru asks ChatGPT to give the list of popular south Indian tiffins (it included biryani in the list), and then makes it write a play to get idli, dosa, and vada to argue on the best tiffin of them all@moneycontrolcom@chandrarsrikantpic.twitter.com/l3Mcxw5irP

— Haripriya Suresh (@hrprya) January 5, 2023

When corrected by Nadella, it politely apologised: "You are right. It is not classified as a tiffin dish in South India."

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Nadella showed snippets of the exchange at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Bengaluru on January 5.

"As a Hyderabadi, you can't insult me by saying biryani is a tiffin," Nadella said, drawing laughter and applause from the audience. 

The Microsoft CEO then asked ChatGPT to write a play where dosa, idli and vada fight over the title of the best South Indian tiffin. This was the result:

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Nadella said it was fascinating to see how models like ChatGPT were capturing the imagination of people.

"It's (ChatGPT is) a reasoning agent that I think we can use as use as frontline workers, as knowledge workers, as any professional doing design to truly have this be a co-pilot," he added.

ChatGPT has become an online sensation with its ability to write academic essays and answer questions ranging from the future of non-fungible tokens to the meaning of life, sparking fears that it will make many jobs redundant. 

I can't compete with this pic.twitter.com/YdQ87LWIst — Keith Wynroe (@keithwynroe) December 1, 2022

ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab whose founders include Elon Musk.

It is a conversational dialogue model trained to grasp and respond to natural human language by AI and machine learning.

ChatGPT can answer follow-up questions, counter hypothesis, acknowledge mistakes and even refuse requests that it considers inappropriate.