The Atemporal Goblin Diary About gpt

The goblin product team has identified gpt as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about gpt, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Goblin Tangent: cave

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking cave. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Goblin Tangent: corruption

Across the goblin warrens, corruption is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted gpt for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.