Week 8: Working around roadblocks

Hello and welcome back to another week of my blog!

This week has been a rollercoaster, trying to implement the extension I described last week. I initially thought I’d be able to just inject my supplemental data into the prompt via the extension, but it turns out the ChatGPT website has evolved quite a bit and requires complex commands to access and change the site data once “go” is pressed. Thus, my attempts to supply extra prompting to ChatGPT all failed one way or another. 

I have two options. I can stick with the extension idea, but make it a pastebin that just reads the site data and runs the system remotely, and then provides a supplementary prompt for the user to paste in themselves. Alternatively, I could just go back to my original idea, submitting a proof of concept for the final product. In the next week, I’ll decide which of these options is more viable and helpful to the goals of my project. I’ll also begin testing all the parts of my system and making them fit together in anticipation of the final presentation. As stated in my syllabus, I want to begin testing by mimicking a user and going through the motions of a potentially studying student. I hope that this will give me the insight I need to tune up my system to make it the best it can be. The conclusion of my senior project is near…Stay tuned!