{"id":362,"date":"2025-07-30T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:30:29","slug":"untouched-by-human-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/untouched-by-human-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Untouched by human hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gold-standard test for Quizlab&#8217;s efficacy is our software&#8217;s ability to produce interesting and amusing quizzes without any human editing of both questions and answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a high hurdle \u2014 not one, frankly, we&#8217;ve yet fully surpassed. But we&#8217;re trying!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking about this test, I recalled a New Yorker cartoon about Automat, the midcentury chain that replaced wait-staff with shelves of glass boxes so customers could self-serve. One of Automat&#8217;s slogans was &#8220;untouched by human hands.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t find the cartoon on Google, so asked for ChatGPT&#8217;s help reproducing it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/New-Yorker-correct-500kb-683x1024.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363 lazyload\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/New-Yorker-correct-500kb-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/New-Yorker-correct-500kb-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/New-Yorker-correct-500kb-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/New-Yorker-correct-500kb-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/New-Yorker-correct-500kb.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What you see is the second try \u2014 ironically, the first iteration featured the spelling &#8220;untoucched.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gold-standard test for Quizlab&#8217;s efficacy is our software&#8217;s ability to produce interesting and amusing quizzes without any human editing of both questions and answers. That&#8217;s a high hurdle \u2014 not one, frankly, we&#8217;ve yet fully surpassed. But we&#8217;re trying! Thinking about this test, I recalled a New Yorker cartoon about Automat, the midcentury chain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}