Role-Play Your Way: How to Talk with Terzaghi

GBA Business Technology Committee

In the ever-evolving landscape of the geoprofessional industry, artificial  intelligence (AI) continues to drive innovation, efficiency, and curiosity. GBA’s Business Technology Committee is producing a six-part series to educate GBA members on the implications of AI on the geoprofessions. The articles, written by Enrique Farfan, Ph.D., P.E. ENV SP (HDR), explore how this technology works and its potential uses.

The fifth article in the series teaches readers how to role-play with an AI version of someone (a digital twin) and uses a ChatGPT conversation with the esteemed “Karl von Terzaghi” as an example.

Role-playing with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT offers an immersive way to interact with data and knowledge. The benefits could include learning through interactive simulations, training programs, and entertainment. With LLMs, creativity can meet the boundless potential of AI and forge new paths toward knowledge and innovation.

Although using AI to create digital twins of ourselves raises many questions about mental health impacts, ethics, and legality, digital twins have the potential to connect people and spread knowledge.

This article provides specific, actionable guidelines for writing a superprompt in ChatGPT to role-play with a LLM version of someone, and a real example of how to apply those guidelines.

In addition to chatting with real historical figures, you can interact with data through role-play by establishing a fictional character that you can gather information from or bounce ideas off.

This technology has a long way to go before it can provide reliable and accurate information. However, this little game of role-play offers a glimpse into what could be possible in the near future.

READ “ROLE-PLAY YOUR WAY: HOW TO TALK WITH TERZAGHI”

See the previous articles in the series:
AI Unveiled: The Wizardry Behind Chatbots and Intelligent Systems
How Large Language Models Work: In a Nutshell
The Ghost in the Machine: Hallucinations
Superprompts: How to Talk with the Genie and Keep it in the Bottle