I’m a huge fan of cocktails, and often order one (or three) on a night out. However, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when many of us were stuck indoors for months on end, I started making cocktails at home. Not only is it cheaper than buying them in bars, there’s also more opportunity to experiment by tweaking the ingredients to your own preferences.
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Years on, and with generative AI and large language models all the rage, I wanted to see if ChatGPT could be used as a virtual bartender. This meant typing various prompts into ChatGPT before sampling the cocktails it suggested I make. Making this a really difficult article to write for obvious reasons. Here’s what I found…
Why Cocktails and Why ChatGPT?
Anyone can pour themselves a glass of beer or wine. But cocktails are generally more difficult to get right. Hence the need for either experience in making cocktails, formal lessons teaching you the craft, or a book packed full of recipes and techniques.
However, there is another option in the form of ChatGPT . On paper, ChatGPT should offer all the expertise offered up by Google Search as well as the ability to adapt to your needs in creative ways. After all, you can use ChatGPT as a cooking assistant , to help you land a dream job , and more besides.
As long as your prompts are sound, the AI chatbot should deliver. So, let’s test that theory.
Testing ChatGPT’s Abilities as a Bartender
I started out with a simple request before moving on to more difficult requests. And the results were interesting, to say the least. I have paraphrased the prompts used as there was often a back-and-forth needed to get ChatGPT to deliver.