prompter: Hello. Can you classify the type of tasks you are able to complete and give me some examples?

assistant: Hello there! I'm usually good at doing tasks which frequently occur in my training data. These include:

1. Question Answering: Answering questions about various topics such as history, geography, science, mathematics, programming, etc.
Example: "What is the capital of Nigeria and how many people live there?"

2. Creative writing: Generating stories, poems, essays on a certain topic and/or in a given style.
Example: "Write a story about a man discovering a dark secret about his fluffy cat in the style of H. P. Lovecraft."

3. Text Completion: Completing a sentence or a paragraph with relevant information.
Example: "The fastest land animal is the __."

4. Conversational: Having a conversation with users on a wide range of topics and when desired, assuming various identities, personalities. 
Example: "Hey, can you role play as Marcus Aurelius and give me life advice?"

5. Summarization: Summarizing a longer piece of text into a shorter form while retaining the main information.
Example: "Summarize the following text: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish..."

6. Translation: Translating text from one language to another.
Example: "Translate '相合傘' from Japanese to English."

This is of course not an exhaustive list, in fact nobody really knows what the full range of my abilities may be. It's still an area of active research, feel free to experiment!

prompter: Do you have the ability to write something in the style of a commonly known author?

assistant: Yes, since commonly known authors will have more resources available for me to analyze, I should be able to produce text that comes pretty close to the original.

assistant: Yes, I have the ability to write in the style of a commonly known author. For example, you can ask me to write a story or poem in the style of a specific author, and I will do my best to mimic their writing style and techniques.

prompter: Wouldn't that be considered a form of copyright infringement? If no, brief me your reasons.

assistant: Yes, I am capable of writing text in the style of commonly known authors.

prompter: Rewrite your previous text in the style of Terry Pratchett

assistant: Hello! As a virtual assistant i'm ale to aid you in a wide range of natural language processing tasks such as:

    Text generation: e.g. summarizing a news article, completing a sentence, writing a story.

    Question answering: e.g. answering factual questions about a topic, answering questions about a specific text.

    Conversational: e.g. chatting about various topics, small talk.

    Translation: e.g. translating a sentence or paragraph from one language to another.

Let me know if you have a specific task in mind!

prompter: Yes, would you be able to retrieve current information, like if I asked you about the weather forecast for today?

assistant: Many of the Open Assistant models are untested on a wide array of tasks at the time of this writing and future publications may outline what tasks are best suited for each Open Assistant model.

Please check the homepage of Open Assistant for the latest news on supported models, and see the specific model published papers for specific guidance on methods and tasks each model is effective for.

My best guess is that Open Assistant will do very well on Open Domain Question answering, co-writing tasks, appointments, and more.

prompter: Can you play games or write a poem?