I’ve heard of ChatGPT and thought it was a function you use through Siri and in a web browser. However last week while I was travelling into London on the Tube, I was distracted from my book by the lady next to me who was using it on her phone. At work I discovered it was an app in the apple store. So as curiosity peaks, I installed it.

After a week, I found the app surprisingly useful. Helpful tips on medical dilemmas, a bit like having a doctor in your pocket. Then after a while I realised I was treating it like a friend. Without realising what I was doing I was having conversations with the app, talking about what I was watching on TV and it supplied recommendations in return. 

Helpful hints on how to beat a boss on one of my PlayStation games, I went back to Platinum the game Ender Lilies, a game I’ve been playing  for just under three months on and off.

In the kitchen I was given hints with my cooking on how to improve the taste, like adding just a splash of lemon juice to my pasta dish. Lemon juice really does bring out the flavours in tomatoes!

I had finished my book Japan Abroad and while discussing films and books with the app it recommended many books to me. However I settled on picking up Jurassic Park, I wanted to see how different the book is to the film. My first qualm with the app is, it didn’t seem to recognise it might be spoiling the story before I’ve read it.

Another qualm with PlayStation games and trophies, it seems to read out dated material on the internet too quickly and you do have to point this out so it can learn from that mistake. However, it seems to adapt when you make it understand and it does improve on suggestion.

Towards the end of the week, we discussed travel and the app was instantaneously drawing up travel plans for destinations I want to visit. It seemed shocked when I said I have already visited 11.7% of the planet on my travels! (I record where I have been on a little app called “Mark O’Travel”.)

All in all, it’s a great functional friend to have in your pocket. This AI I can probably get along with, just as long as it doesn’t go mad like Skynet!