One day, we’re going to take this for granted (maybe we already do?)

I remember a time in the late 80s or 90s, visiting one of my grandparents’ homes and playing… some board game. All I really remember is that it had:

– a bazaar
– some electronic component (with a sinister voice, maybe?)

That was it! I don’t really remember much else.

I search Google and get:

Clicking through, none of that looked or sounded familiar.

Let’s try ChatGPT.

Wouldn’t you know… it basically one-shot the search result!

That initial image looked like the ones Google returned, so no dice (hah) there. But! Dark Tower? What is this?

Uhhh, THIS WAS IT!

Apparently, it’s fondly remembered. And there is a modern sequel that uses your smartphone.

EDIT:

I realize that this might not be a totally fair comparison since I gave ChatGPT so much more context. It might be the nature of how we interact with these services (e.g., natural language chat vs “guttural” input in a search engine).

But… just to do some proper due diligence: