TechRadar Article Says Contributor Asked ChatGPT to Reinvent Five Arcade Classics
TechRadar says contributor Becca asked ChatGPT to reinvent five arcade classics; the text supplied contains only her biography.
The text provided is largely Becca’s contributor biography. It identifies her as a freelance journalist and author who has written about consumer tech and popular science for more than ten years, covering topics including why robots have eyes and whether people might one day experience the overview effect. It says she is particularly interested in VR/AR, wearables, digital health, space tech and speaking with experts and academics about the future.
According to the biography, her first book, Screen Time, about how people can learn to love their tech rather than feel stressed by it, was published in January 2021 by Bonnier Books. She is working on ideas for a second nonfiction book and writes fiction in her spare time.
The biography says she has contributed to TechRadar, T3, Wired, New Scientist, The Guardian, Inverse and other outlets. It lists earlier roles as international editor at MSN, associate editor at Lifehacker UK and publisher at Shiny Media, and says she holds an English Language and Literature degree and a master’s in Public Relations and Strategic Marketing Communications.
It adds that she began her career in tech PR and marketing and has a fortnightly column exploring the science of Star Trek. According to the biography, she also holds a Guinness World Record with TechRadar’s Gerald Lynch for playing the largest game of Tetris ever made, and she enjoys photographing brutalist architecture and using VR for space and 3D painting.
No additional reporting on ChatGPT’s game-making output, the five arcade titles or any responses from OpenAI was included in the supplied text.