AI Update: ChatGPT Why Simple Prompts Don't Work & ChatGPT Cheatsheet

ChatGPT: Why Simple Prompts Don’t Work

One of the articles circulating the feeds this week is Charlie Booker’s experience trying to use ChatGPT to write an episode of the Netflix series ‘Black Mirror’.

His big mistake, thinking that ChatGPT is some magic box that can write a script with a simple prompt like “Generate Black Mirror Episode”.

Booker said that ChatGPT generated what seemed to be a plausible script but in the end, was basically a mish-mash of previous episodes.

On the upside, the exercise did spur some new ideas for him, which is one of the ways I think Hollywood would really benefit from the technology.

Read more about it on Boing Boing

Prompt Of The Day

After reading the article about Booker’s experience I thought “How would I have approached it differently?” I came up with the following prompts to get something better as a draft script to improve the creative process.

1) Get the tone, style, and structure

Describe the tone, style, and structure of the script writing of the show black mirror on Netflix

2) Outline a concept

Based on this description outline an episode including all of the screenplay elements needed to be a full concept to review

3) Expand on each of the Acts

Expand on Act 1 with scene and dialog direction

4) Expand on individual Scenes

Expand on Act 1, Scene 1 with scene and dialog direction

5) Flesh out a more detailed dialog between the characters

Write a more complete dialog of the conversation between Jane and Lisa for Act 1, Scene 1

Obviously, this process is much more involved than what Booker tried, but this follows more of the actual process screenwriters would go through themselves to create a concept and turn it into a script.

ChatGPT iOS Updates Including iPad Support

• Use Siri for voice input (The app was already using OpenAI’s Whisper Tech)

• Create a shortcut to send ChatGPT output to other apps

• Drag and Drop functionality to also pull output from ChatGPT into other apps

• Full-Screen functionality on the iPad

• Still no app available for Android users

AI Designed Foldable Coach

The project was actually started back in 2019 with the premise “What if a couch could fold flat, fit in a big envelope, and be carried by a single person?”

The project was paused during the pandemic but revisited six months ago. They started asking ChatGPT “Could a couch fit in an envelope” to which it replied “No, a couch could not”

But then they at least knew ChatGPT understood the concept of what a traditional couch is.

They then turned to Midjourney and DALL-E with hundreds of prompts to push the design barriers. The key was not using the term couch in their prompts and coming up with other ways to express the end result they were looking for.

Check out the iteration of concepts and the end result here.

Images Of the Day

Prompt Used:

A highly detailed airbrush painting, using a parametric equation to create captivating art, x(2π) = 5 cos(3.6 2π) cos(2π) + 5 sin(33 2π) cos(2π) and y(2π) = 5 cos(3.6 2π) sin(2π) + 5 sin(33 2π) sin(2π) --ar 1200:630 --v 5

I hope you enjoyed today’s issue, I am headed down to the Mayo Clinic tomorrow for my next chemo treatment. May be a short issue tomorrow.

Until tomorrow,
Kevin Davis