Watch ChatGPT Build A Working Guitar Pedal Plugin

This is one of the coolest things I have seen from ChatGPT so far.

In this video, the AI is able to write a functional VST plugin for a DAW that simulates a guitar pedal. Obviously this requires a lot of trial and error, as well as some human intervention at points. But this, to me, is why ChatGPT is compelling. You can talk to it conversationally.

There are a lot of ethical conversations about art and AI happening in my corners of the web these days, and I am not prepared to get into it here. That said, I think code is one of the examples where I have found AI to be an actual utility in my life. I have asked ChatGPT to write me short AppleScripts that automate cumbersome computer tasks, and it has done it successfully!