Thanks for taking the time to check that out.

I use DuckDuckGo (DDG). I used both "subdirectory tree" and "subdirectory hierarchy" as search terms. I expanded to several (27") screenfuls of results for each; I did only scan these but nothing leapt out as related to what the OP asked. Did you try Google or any other search engine?

My real intelligence saw f/o/foo and guessed at a potential problem with what was actually asked; I changed that to f/fo/foo, made a comparison with T/TI/TIMB, and answered "trie". ChatGPT's artifical intelligence was unable to do that; or, at least, was unable to ask "Did you mean f/fo/foo?" or add some query along those lines.

If I make a typo in a search term, DDG might show something along the lines of: "Few results for psuedocode; did you mean pseudocode?". The f/o/foo vs. f/fo/foo issue is more subtle. I've known about tries and CPAN tarballs for years, and so was able to make an intelligent guess; ChatGPT's AI can't make that intuitive leap from one to the other, although I suspect it could answer a direct question about either.

An interesting exercise; however, I won't be signing up with ChatGPT to help with my internet searches anytime soon. :-)

[Aside: Quite by accident, I came across this YouTube video, "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.", a week or two ago. It's about two hours long; I only watched the first few minutes; the code is Python; it may be of interest to some. ]

— Ken

In reply to Re^6: Is there a name for this directory format where 'foo.jpg' is in '/img/f/o/'? [ChatGPT usage] by kcott
in thread Is there a name for this directory format where 'foo.jpg' is in '/img/f/o/'? by Cody Fendant

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