Unless you’ve been living in a dark room without internet for the last few years, you’ll be aware of A.I.’s growing prevalence in the world we live in, whether it’s recommending shows for you on streaming platforms, detecting bank fraud or optimising traffic flow at junctions. Golf is not immune to the influence of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) either with manufacturer’s utilising it to design smarter club faces and run impact simulations significantly faster than they have been able to do previously. We even used it to locate the best deals on particular products during Black Friday.
ChatGPT is a generative chatbot that uses A.I. and natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue. I’ve used it sparingly to see how accurate it is and the results have been mixed at best - I once asked it for the best par three holes in England and it suggested the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in Florida, so clearly there is room for improvement.
