Artificial Interpretation
Electric Sheep dream analysis with Gen AI
Artificial Intelligence is the greatest technological advancement in this century so far, by any measure. And Generative AI, mass-popularized by ChatGPT, has taken society by storm.
If you’re a serious dreamworker, you’ve probably logged on and kicked the free ChatGPT 3.5 tires with a few prompts to see what it has been pre-trained (the P in GPT) to know and respond to. Maybe you even prompted it to interpret a specific dream within a specific dream interpretation methodology, like Jungian. And odds are good that you came away impressed.
What you probably didn’t know is that you can create your own GPT, rather easily in fact, so that you, your clients, and other users can explore the interpretation and meaning of their dreams based on your particular methodology and process flow. Here’s how…
First, you need to pony up for ChatGPT-4, twenty bucks a month. It’s where all the cool stuff lives. Then, you click Explore GPTs > Create and follow the instructions to create and configure your GPT.
The key to this process is the Upload files button. This is where you can add your own process docs — or any other doc for that matter — that will be used by your GPT to reference and respond to user prompts. This is found under Knowledge.
Be sure to create real good Conversation starters to use as an on-ramp to your GPT to help guide users through your flow. These appear as boxes just above the prompt entry field.
Instructions are important as well. Put some natural language instructions in there, such as The first thing it should say, no matter what the first prompt is, is “Welcome fellow dreamer" and that’s what a user will see. Obviously, you can use flowchart-style instructions to guide a user with much greater detail than this simple example, to pose questions, to make further suggestions, to ask for specific data, and so forth, to follow your process flow. You can see this in work when you use some of the writing assistant GPTs, for example.
We’ve come a long way from Bagels and ELIZA. AI is a powerful new technology that every dreamworker should and can embrace in some fashion, to help with research and better serve clients. Generative AI is not here to replace you. It is here as your super smart personal assistant that can do just about anything you ask it to do, except get you a Diet Coke (I heard that’s coming with ChatGPT 5.0).
