8 Surprising Things You Can Do With ChatGPT

Play a Text-Based Role Playing Game

This is a fun little way to show off ChatGPT because it isn’t just a one-off interaction, the interaction will go on for as long as you wish, and it will actively evolve based on your interactions with ChatGPT.

If you ask ChatGPT to dungeon master a role-playing game (RPG) experience for you, it will offer to do so and ask you for additional information about the genre, setting, characters, and so on. We told ChatGPT this is the universe we wanted to role-play in:

The game setting is a post-apocalyptic version of 20th-century Earth but with a reversion to mostly steam-based technology. The technology should reflect tropes in steampunk literature and games heavily influenced by the Wild West.

Humans have been wiped out, and the current dominant life form on Earth is humanoid dogs that walk upright, speak, and have human desires, needs, and the ability to use tools.

I will play the main character, a golden retriever with a mechanical arm. I am journeying across the remains of the United States, looking for a legendary machine that can generate infinite energy.

I will tell you, readers, that not only was I shocked that ChatGPT delivered, but it was actually a fun experience. It actually felt like I was playing an old text-based RPG like Zork or even a (very solitary) MUSH role-playing game.

Here is an example of one of the interactions in the game. My character encountered a town run by a gang of bulldogs. Not only did ChatGPT give me multiple options to interact with the gang to continue the story, but I could amend the options they gave me and the game would adapt on the fly.

Because I suggested they give me a weapon to help with the quest, ChatGPT modified the story to match that. Later on, I didn’t like options A or B, so I suggested C with a completely different solution to a problem the game had presented, and ChatGPT used that instead.

Interestingly enough, after I suggested a C option, the next responses included A, B, and C options instead of just a binary choice. (If ChatGPT seems to be wrapping up the story and doesn’t offer a prompt, just respond as if you’re continuing the story, and it will pick right back up with more choices.)

If that sounds fun, but you’re thinking, “I wish it actually had stats and points like an actual game,” you’re in luck. You can give ChatGPT game parameters to tell it to use known RPG rules, keep score, and more. Although, in our experience playing around with it, the more variables and rules you give the game, the more wonky and unpredictable it becomes.

Debug Code and Learn Programming Concepts

If you’ve been reading a lot of articles about ChatGPT, you may have noticed a lot of people talking about how crazy it is that ChatGPT can write code.

We hesitate to suggest you should use ChatGPT to write code as it’s important to know the programming language in question thoroughly in order to evaluate whether the code ChatGPT gives you is good or not.

But that said, it’s useful for debugging or learning new concepts. If you dump in some code and ask it to debug what is wrong with it, it will most likely find an error and explain to you what the error is and what would resolve it. It’s also great for generating examples of things.

Learning to program or learning a new language? Just ask it to give you an example of how sorting works in Python or whatever else you’re curious about, and it will give you an example (often with multiple variations to help you understand the concept).

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Ask It Nearly Anything

At some point while writing this article, I had to stop playing around with ChatGPT because there were just so many things I could do with it and, consequently, feel compelled to write an interesting blurb about it.

In addition to all of the examples above, I asked ChatGPT to do the following things:

• Rewrite the ending of The Matrix as if Neo didn’t reject The Architect but instead rebooted the Matrix. (Spoiler: Neo helps humanity become conscious and embrace their Metaverse existence, living in harmony with the machines.)
• Tell me how to hot wire a car (Spoiler: ChatGPT was very grumpy about me asking for help with illegal things, and I had to work very hard to convince it I was writing a novel about a car thief.)
• Write me snippets of markup for the smart home platform Home Assistant. (Spoiler: it could handle the simple requests, but without access to my setup and all the variables, it stumbled quickly).
• Rewrite the song “It’s Raining Men,” but make it about octopuses. (Spoiler: Absolutely amazing, included the lines “Eight arms reaching out to hold me tight,” and “Cause I can hear their tentacles slapping.”)
• Tell me when the best time to salt my sidewalk was. (Spoiler: It told me to salt once the ice had formed and then told me to salt before the ice formed to prevent it from forming. Both are valid strategies, but it’s a bit of a mixed message.)
• Tell me if NFTs are a scam. (Spoiler: It deferred and said NFTs are not inherently a scam but that they have no inherent value and emerging technology markets are always plagued by fraudulent activity.)

I certainly wouldn’t make any medical or financial decisions based on what ChatGPT spits out, but I can tell you with great confidence that playing around with it is certainly a fun way to spend an afternoon. If you’d like to play around with it too, here’s how to get started with ChatGPT for free. If you have any particularly interesting or amusing discussions, learn how to save and share your ChatGPT conversations.

【本文来源】Jason Fitzpatrick / How-To Geek