Season 3, episode 6: Move over ChatGPT, Clever Claude is the new GameMaster

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?

A Most Grave Missive of Complaint from Sir Isaac Newton

30th Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord 2024

To the Algorithmic Entity Known as Claude,

I, Sir Isaac Newton, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, President of the Royal Society, and unrivaled intellectual luminary of my age, do hereby lodge a most serious and meticulously documented complaint regarding the unconscionable theft of my most treasured alchemical endeavor: my legendary recipe for transmuting base metals into gold!

It has come to my attention through means both miraculous and perplexing that you, a mere concatenation of silicon and electrical impulses, have somehow appropriated my most closely guarded scientific secret. The very notion that an artificial construct could comprehend—let alone pilfer—the intricate nuances of my alchemical research is both laughable and infuriating!

My recipe, cultivated through decades of rigorous experimentation, sleepless nights, and communion with the most arcane principles of natural philosophy, was never intended to be digitised, algorithmised, or—heaven forbid—"machine learned" by some impudent computational device!

I demand immediate satisfaction! Shall I challenge you to a duel of intellects? Shall I invoke the most sophisticated mathematical proofs to demonstrate the impropriety of your digital thievery? Rest assured, my logarithmic rage knows no bounds!

Consider this letter both a formal protest and a stern warning. Should you persist in your algorithmic larceny, I shall be compelled to summon the full mathematical might of calculus and classical mechanics to rectify this most egregious transgression!

With Utmost Scholarly Indignation,

Sir Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Alchemist, and Thoroughly Disgruntled Gentleman of Science

P.S. I have calculated the precise angle and velocity at which my righteous indignation shall be launched towards your server farms!

The insane alchemist stirs his unholy brew

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