This is an ‘unplugged’ activity to help demystify AI, where learners work together to create a simple ‘ChatGPT’ system to generate a story.
This activity follows on from the ‘Is this a Zegah?‘ and ‘Let’s generate a sentence‘ activities about AI.
The ‘Let’s generate a sentence’ activity might not have gone so well.聽 Our sentence didn鈥檛 really reflect a prompt.聽 Also, the sentence you wrote was maybe more like 鈥淭he elephant flew under the train鈥� than 鈥淭he cat sat on the mat鈥�, with no connection between the individual words.
For example, if the animal selected was a cat, then verbs like 鈥榩urred鈥� and 鈥榩ounced鈥� and 鈥榣azed鈥� would be far more likely than verbs such as 鈥榖arked鈥� and 鈥榝etched鈥�.
So, we鈥檙e going to try again. We鈥檙e going to write a story.聽聽This time, we鈥檙e going to be able to see the last few words in the sentence.聽聽We will also have a prompt.
This activity is very similar to the game Consequences where you write words and fold over the paper and pass it on (or Cheddar Gorge where you try to keep a sentence going as long as possible).聽 We鈥檙e going to adapt this a little so we can see the last three words in the sentence, which reflects the limited ‘memory’ in AI systems like Chat-GPT.