GameMaster - the AI-powered narrator of PastMaster adventures - gets a makeover in today's episode.
ChatGPT has been benched and replaced by a competing tool known as Claude.ai
We've given Claude the same starting prompt we usually feed to ChattyG. So how will it compare? Well, it turns out Claude brings a unique energy to the proceedings!
Friend of the show Nick Horseman returns to the hot seat for another crack at the past, only this time he's being guided by a radically different (possibly insane) GameMaster.
Heading back to the medieval times to try his hand at a spot of falconry and alchemy. What could possibly go wrong?
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