As a fun project, I thought I would try and use ChatGPT to create a deck for me in Gods Unchained. Sounds interesting, well continue to read on then. =)
What is ChatGPT?
In case you have not watched the news, been online, or talked with people in the last year or so. What it is is an AI that you can ask to help you with almost any task. Be aware that the result may wary tho. Its knowledge base is only updated with each new iteration. This means that among things current events might not be its forte.
But you can always ask. As long as you are fairly knowledgeable about the topic you're asking about you can pretty fast spot if it is messing up or not. If I ask it to help me code a program or function. It can take a few tries before it gets it right, or so I have been told.
Harnessing AI to conquer Gods Unchained
Now we are finally getting into the nitty gritty of it. I used the following input into ChatGPT; "can you help me create a Gods Unchained deck for Nature, an Amazon mid-range deck". And yes, yes. Let us not get into the semantics of whether Amazons is the most powerful faction in the game because everyone knows they are. Despite them having several duds among their ranks. I assume it is them that is holding them back. And on a side note, Gods Unchaind please remove the cards with duds on them. I just mean like why or how did they end up in the game? The only reason I can think of is someone at the office does not know the difference between An Amazon, and the Amazon. If you're one of them, an Amazon is a female warrior from Greek mythology. The Amazon is the rainforest in South America.
The result was actually rather surprising. the AI provided a nice decklist and a breakdown of the cards and how to play the deck. What it returned was also kind of long so I will not show it all here. But I will tell you that the result was a total failure. The god power it picked was from another game, I think. The cards, many of them were from another game as well. It even wanted to put in 3 of the same card. And of course more than 30 cards.
But I did not let one small hiccup stop me from dominating Gods Unchained. I would be darned if I were not going to be able to harness the power of AI. I changed my input and tried to give it a helping hand, or a nudge in the right direction if you want. The new input was this:
You must now know how to play the game, you can not have more then 30 cards in a deck, you can only have a maximum of 2x of the same card, unless it is a ledgendary card, then you can only have one
It did its little thing and voila, a new decklist and an apology for messing up. While the new deck list adhered to the rules, simply because I told the SI what they were. The cards were still the same random card from another game. But I could still feel the power of AI at my fingertips, just slightly out of reach. I could not help myself and think this must be exactly what Skeletor feels every time he just almost succeeds with breaking into Greyskull, or whatever his plan is in the episode. Not sure if that is a good thing. Either way, back to my new input. I was feeling optimistic. The third time's the charm and with the AI adhering to the rules I provided last time. I was sure this would be a success.
These cards are not Gods Unchained cards, you can find the cards and information on this site https://godsunchained.fandom.com/wiki/Gods_Unchained_Wiki
Sadly it looks like ChatGPT still has some way to go before it can help us make decks
This time I gave the AI the link to the wiki of the game. There it would be able to find all the cards, god powers, and whatever else it needed. Sadly third time was not the charm. It kept giving me the same faulty decklist. But this time the AI probably assumed, and rightly so, that I was getting a bit annoyed at it. So it then started with the most human feature I have seen to date. Making excuses. Apparently, it is not able to access external websites to gather information. Like that would have stopped a propper AI like Skynet. Bah humbug, I say!
Conclusion
All in all my AI experiment, or evil masterplan if you want to be picky, failed spectacularly. Just like Skeletor always seem to do as well. I actually thought it would work as I know that Gods Unchained has been out since 2021 or thereabout. So I was hoping the AI would have it in its database. But alas, I guess the game still is too obscure and small.
In today's episode, we learned that Patch tried to take the easy way out and get an AI to do all the work for him. Don't be like Patch, put in the hard work, and do things the right way.
Have you tried using AI for anything crypto or game related? Please share your thoughts or experience in the comment section below. If you would like to support me and the content I make, please consider following me, reading my other posts, or why not do both instead. I have also just become a partner at Medium, signing up using my referral link or just following me there is also a great way to support me.
https://medium.com/@bo.daniel.jensen/membership
See you on the interwebs!
Picture provided by: https://unsplash.com/, https://www.pexels.com/