Check Out This New Mobile App That Claims to Offer a ChatGPT Like Experience
Dogtown Media offers iOS and Android users a holiday gift
ChatGPT has dominated discussion in tech circles since it launched three weeks ago. Dogtown Media rushed a new iOS app to market in order to claim the first ChatGPT-like experience in the app store. And it’s pretty good even if it is not exactly that chat-like.
The Merlin AI app is free to use and appears to be using OpenAI’s standard GPT API. In fact, there is no ChatGPT model that has been announced or is available in the doc.
That means Merlin AI is not exactly ChatGPT but may be based on the same GPT-3.5 Davinci 003 model. You may also note that the interface is not exactly chat-like. It is more similar to OpenAI’s playground as you don’t have chat bubbles going back and forth between the user and the AI. Instead, you add text to a single box which is also where the response is generated and your follow-up, and so on.
An App That Will Change the World?
Technology companies talking about changing the world have transitioned from cliché to meme territory. If you like hyperbole, you will enjoy the comment by Dogtown media’s CEO, Mark Fisher, from the press release.
“Until now, no native mobile app for OpenAI’s ChatGPT has existed. Merlin AI, powered by ChatGPT, has the capability to disrupt the global economic order in record time, changing how we interface with each other in business and our personal lives. People across the globe can now download the most pivotal natural language ChatBot App ever made and jump into the AI conversation.”
Well, I’d say you can download the app. The other claims? 😂
An Easy Way to Share GPT
Despite the over-the-top rhetoric (which may be sly humor - at least, I hope so), the app is worth a try. It’s the holiday season. After they catch up on the usual family topics and the conversation dies down, someone will likely bring up ChatGPT. It’s both interesting and accessible.
Seeing is believing with OpenAI’s latest triumph. However, trying to bring your laptop to the dinner table to demonstrate the astonishing feats of large language models is a bad idea. Merlin AI offers a much easier option.
Download the free app and start typing. I think you will find it a handy way to access GTP.
