7 ways ChatGPT is already being used as an everyday cheat code

Date:
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 10:00:40 +0000

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Here are seven real-world ChatGPT examples that show how the AI chatbot is changing our lives for better and worse.

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Since its public launch, people have been using AI bots to help them create various projects, and here youll find a collection of ChatGPT examples that show you what the tool can be used to do.

Just dont expect much from this list to blow you away. ChatGPT-4 may have now launched , bringing major updates to OpenAIs creations abilities, but the AI is still in its relative infancy and is prone to making mistakes. Its also
not great at being original with many of examples of ChatGPTs work merely being poor copies of existing art (which makes sense when you consider how large language models work). 1. Making games Sumplete

One of the coolest things weve seen someone create using ChatGPT is a whole game that you can actually play online right now . Its called Sumplete and
its a sort of hybrid of sudoku and picross.

Sumplete has you eliminate numbers in a grid so that the rows and columns add up to (or sum to) target figures. At lower levels, the grid is quite small
and the puzzles arent too challenging, but at the highest Master level you wont just have to deal with a nine-by-nine grid but one thats full of
positive and negative numbers which makes finding the correct answer a
proper puzzle. A complete Sumplete grid looks like this (Image credit:
Future)

Plus, this Wordle rival is particularly interesting as it was created in just a few hours by ChatGPT with some help from human prompter and programmer Daniel Tait . Not only did the chatbot pitch the idea, but it helped to code Sumplete as well. That said, while Tait plays down his involvement based on our own efforts trying to make a game in ChatGPT it likely involved a lot of talent on his part to not only understand the code (and what needed fixing) but also how to phrase prompts to get the right answer.

So while you can have a go at making a game in ChatGPT yourself, dont expect to make a Wordle-rival like Sumplete on your first try or even on your
100th. 2. Writing letters get parking fines reduced

If parking companies are going to send us automated letters telling us we
have to pay a fine, why shouldnt we leverage AI to send automated arguments back to help us try and reduce how much were charged or even get out of paying completely?

Thats the thought thats crossed several peoples minds, with them turning to ChatGPT to help them challenge fines and save money. Millie Houlton, a
student in the UK, reportedly used ChatGPT to send a letter to York City Council which convinced them to withdraw a fine of 60 (around $75 / AU$112), and Shaun Bosley, a UK motorist, used ChatGPT help him reduce a fine for stopping at Gatwick Airport from 100 to 15 (around $125 to $19 / AU$186 to AU$28).

Copying this ChatGPT example wont always help you save money especially if you dont double-check that its writing hasn't strayed into gibberish but considering how quick and easy it is to get the chatbot to produce the letter for you its probably worth giving it a try. Worst case you have to pay the fine anyway, but at least you didnt waste much of your own time fighting it. 3. Writing a TV show Nothing, Forever

ChatGPT can be a pretty helpful writing buddy by helping to pitch story prompts, edit your work and even tell you the tone of your writing. But ChatGPT can take things one step further by just doing the writing for you.

BBC Click presenter, Lara Lewington used ChatGPT to help pen a documentary where she outlines how AI could transform our daily lives and the issues AI has that are holding it back. While at the other end of the spectrum, you
have TV shows like Nothing, Forever , an AI-written parody of Seinfeld . A screenshot from Nothing, Forever ; it looks like an old PS1 game (Image credit: Mismatch Media)

Nothing, Forever serves as a great warning for why you might want to think twice about relying on an AI writer. While the shows segments and jokes may mimic Seinfeld's humor the often nonsense combination of words and inconsistent setups and punchlines help the show avoid being funny and
instead see it stray into absurd territory. Additionally, the show has
already been banned on Twitch once after it produced a segment that was transphobic and homophobic an accident the creators apologized for and
blamed on them briefly switching to an alternative writer chatbot after ChatGPT suffered from outages. AI cant think critically and their writing
will be easily manipulated by any biases in their data set, so make sure you carefully vet and edit anything an AI produces before you release it into the world. 4. Finding obscure movie references

There are reasons for and against using AI chatbots as search engines, but
one advantage they do have is that they can have a much better go at piecing together partial information to find what youre after. This can be super helpful if you remember snippets of a film scene, the odd line of a song, or some other slightly obscure but specific detail that isnt the name of the thing you want to recall.

Case in point, if you use Google to search for What's the film in which the main character trains with a small green alien in a swamp the first film recommendation hidden among the mish-mash of results is Labou a 2008 flick about kids looking for treasure in the Louisiana bayou. Theres a swamp sure, and weird creatures but thats not the film Im thinking of.

Posing the same question to ChatGPT instead gets it to predict the film Im thinking of is Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back which it was. That said we did have to have a couple of goes and make the prompt more specific when we originally asked ChatGPT for a film in which the main character is trained by an alien it pitched Lilo & Stitch the 2002 animated Disney film. 5. Pumping out book after book

ChatGPT isnt just versed in the world of film, it can also produce books too and the Kindle store is already being flooded with hundreds of books produced by AI . This influx of robot authors is partly due to Amazons simple self-publishing service, which has yet to address the use of AI or ChatGPT in its publishing guidelines .

Creating books this way may seem harmless and a helpful way to finally get that idea thats been floating around in your head into a finished product
but AI books are already facing a fair few controversies. Alice and Sparkle was generated using ChatGPT and Dall-E (Image credit: Ammaar Reshi)

Firstly theres the issue of ownership. Some would argue that the prompter
owns the book, others would say its OpenAI as it created ChatGPT, and a third group argues that no one owns the book citing a 2016 ruling that decided no one owns the selfie taken by Naruto the crested macaque , which decided non-human made works immediately enter the public domain. Additionally, the
AI isnt really creating anything just using the prompt and borrowing ideas from similar works it's been trained on so a fourth group might argue the AI-made book belongs to the authors ChatGPT copied.

This ChatGPT example also runs up against another issue: AI books typically arent that good. Unless a human goes over it to fix any errors the novel will likely be full of nonsense and cliches that can make for a rather lackluster read. 6. Writing song lyrics robot Nick Cave

Another writing example, you can also use ChatGPT to help you pen songs inspired by your favorite musicians. Though, as with the above examples the results are mixed at best. Case in point, one person asked ChatGPT to
generate a new song in the style of Nick Cave , and in the human Nick Cages opinion it sucks, calling it a grotesque mockery.

The song includes lyrics such as Ive got the blood of angels, on my hands,
Ive got the fire of hell, in my eyes, Im the king of the abyss, Im the ruler of the dark, Im the one that they fear, in the shadows they hark. The song definitely follows Caves use of typically dark religious imagery, though, in Caves eyes, it lacks the authentic human experience that fuels good creative endeavors. 7. Plan your dream vacation book a trip to Paris

ChatGPT isnt just useful for writing, thanks to its list of compatible
plugins you can also use it to perform tasks like planning your dream vacation.

We had a try at using Expedias ChatGPT integration to organize a trip to Paris, but you can try very similar features in ChatGPT itself. Using the Expedia or Kayak plugins you can get holiday destination ideas, find flights that suit your needs, source potential hotel options, and even find
activities to do while youre away. The tools pretty neat, and we wre pretty bummed out when we realized we werent actually going on the fake trip we planned using the tool. Are you ready to book your next trip away with ChatGPT? (Image credit: Getty Images)

Though if youre relying on this ChatGPT example to actually book a trip away, you could also try out the Speak plugin which is described as an AI-powered language tutor. That way when you arrive at your destination you can try your best to speak the local language, or at least know some basic phrases to help you get by when you cant access an online tool like Google Translate.



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