I found a notice that the National Library Board was experimenting with AI as a way to increase interest in reading. An AI activity named Playbrary was their first venture. The application uses ChatGPT to turn public-domain classics into choose-your-own adventures. You don’t need the paid version of ChatGPT for the text version and if you have the paid version of ChatGPT the adventures will include some graphics. I explored the Sherlock Holmes adventure.
It was great fun and then I hit the end and was told to read the book and that would be fun too.
I started to wonder how ChatGPT did this and just for kicks tried the following prompt.
Prompt: I want to read a choose-your-own adventure story. Include an occasional image that supports the story. Wait after each choice for my response.
It turns out ChatGPT will create choose-your-own adventure games.
I don’t know if this is a good or a bad thing. I don’t know if it is a waste of the resources ChatGPT must bring to bear to do this. I just know it works.
You can request an adventure on pretty much any subject. I never got to the end of an adventure so I wonder if ChatGPT even knows where the story is going.
Prompt: I want to read a chose-your-own adventure story set in a middle school. Include an occasional image that supports the story. Wait after each choice for my response.
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