No, Paul Edwin Zimmer did not write a fourth novel in the Dark Border series. The trilogy consists of "The Dark Border," "The Dark Border: The Return," and "The Dark Border: The Reckoning." After these, he focused on other projects and did not continue the series.
Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad, published in 1989. This installment focuses on the characters Ingulf Mac Fingold and Carrol Mac Lir, detailing their meeting and the acquisition of their mystical swords. Notably, Istvan Divega, the protagonist of the earlier books, does not appear in this novel.
> As of my knowledge cutoff in October 2023, Paul Edwin Zimmer did not publish a fourth novel in the Dark Border series. The series comprises three books: > 1. The Lost Prince (1982) > 2. King Chondos' Ride (1982) > 3. A Gathering of Heroes (1987) > > Paul Edwin Zimmer had plans to continue the series, but he passed away in 1997 before any additional novels were completed or published. There have been no posthumous releases of a fourth Dark Border novel. If there have been developments after October 2023, I recommend checking recent publications or official announcements for the most up-to-date information.
DuckAssist Result: The fourth novel in Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border series is titled "Ingulf the Mad." This book focuses on characters Ingulf Mac Fingold and Carrol Mac Lir, detailing their meeting and the acquisition of their mystic swords, while the main character from the earlier novels, Istvan Divega, does not appear.
(With source as wikipedia)
I had to refresh my knowledge base visiting fandom websites to review the episode selected as answer as chatgpt tendency to mix things up and provide entirely made up episodes make it hard for bar trivias (and makes me doubt myself too). The same with other tv series such as House MD and Scrubs.
I really think this latest release is a game changer for ChatGPT since it seems much more likely to return genuine information than ChatGPT answering using its model alone. Of course it still hallucinates sometimes (I asked about searching tabs in Firefox Mobile and it told him the wrong place to find that ability while citing a bunch of Mozilla help docs), but it's much easier to verify that by clicking through to sources directly.
It feels like a very different experience using ChatGPT with search turned on and the "Citations" right side bar left open. I get answers from ChatGPT while also seeing a bunch of possibly relevant links populate. If I detect something's off I can click on a source and read the details directly. It's a huge improvement on relying on the model alone.
You can use them as a starting point though.
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4o:
Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad, published in 1989. This installment focuses on the characters Ingulf Mac Fingold and Carrol Mac Lir, detailing their meeting and acquisition of mystical swords. Notably, Istvan Divega, the protagonist of the earlier books, does not appear in this novel.
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4o-mini:
Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer authored a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad. Published in 1989, this book shifts focus from the previous protagonist, Istvan DiVega, to explore the backstory of Ingulf Mac Fingold and Carrol Mac Lir, detailing their initial meeting and the acquisition of their mystical swords.
The complete Dark Border series consists of four novels:
1. The Lost Prince (1982)
2. King Chondos' Ride (1983)
3. A Gathering of Heroes (1987)
4. Ingulf the Mad (1989)
These works delve into a world where the Hasturs' power is crucial in containing dark creatures, and the narrative unfolds through various characters' perspectives.
4o-mini: https://chatgpt.com/share/6725f6fb-3b84-800b-9b4d-3e82554fbf...
I can't figure out how to share the 4o one. The UI is weird.
I also search on Google and find "hallucinations": pages with false content that rank better than the real information. In Google the current issue is about ranking and forgetting information that was previously available.
I'm on the other side of this fence to you. I agree that the conclusion here is that "it is flaky." Disagree about what that means.
As LLMs progress, 10% accuracy becomes 50% accuracy. That becomes 80% accuracy and from there to usable accuracy... whatever that is per case. Not every "better than random" seed grows into high accuracy features, but many do. It's never clear where accuracy ceilings are, and high reliability applications may be distant but... sufficient accuracy is not necessarily very high for many applications.
Meanwhile, the "accurate-for-me" fix is usually to use the appropriate model, prompt or such. Well... these are exactly the kind of optimizations that can be implemented in a UI like "LLM search."
I'm expecting "LLMs eat search." They don't have to "solve truth." They just have to be better and faster than search, with fewer ads.
LLMs are run with variable output, sure, but it's particularly odd if GP used the search product as it doesn't have to provide the facts from the model itself in that case. If GP had posted the link to the actual chat rather than provided a link to chatgpt.com (???) I'd be interested in seeing if Search was even used as that'd at least explain where such variance in output came from. Instead we're all talking about what could have happened or not.
I usually seed conversations with several fact-finding prompts before asking the real question I am after. It populates the chat history with the context and pre-established facts to build the real question from a much more refined position.
Sharing the actual chat link is more useful since AI responses are non-deterministic by nature so reproducing your interaction is very difficult.
This time it was, "Did Paul Edwin Zimmer write a fourth Dark Border novel?" (Real answer: Yes, Ingulf the Mad. You can find the answer on his Wikipedia page.[1])
ChatGPT's[2] answer: "Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in the Dark Border series titled "The Dark Border." This book was published after the original trilogy, which included "The Dark Border," "The Gilded Age," and "The Silver Sphere." If you're interested in the themes or plot, let me know!" (Note: these are not the titles of the 2nd and 3rd novels in the series. Also, it gave me the same name for the putative 1st and 4th books.)
Pure hallucination.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Edwin_Zimmer 2. https://chatgpt.com/