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Game 4: Vanity Plate Decoder

Game 4: Vanity Plate Decoder

When you drive by a vanity license plate with a cryptic message, ChatGPT can help

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Jul 08, 2023
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Sometimes you’re driving down the road and you see a vanity license plate. Usually, license plates are limited to 7 characters, so multi-word phrases turn into cryptic abbreviations. It can be fun to guess, but incredibly frustrating if you can’t figure it out.

What recourse do you have? You can’t Google it. There’s no Wikipedia page for it. You can’t track down the person and ask for the answer, unless you’re a stalker (please don’t). That’s where ChatGPT can come in. Since generative AI is great at remixing written material and making stuff up, it came help you come up with a list of plausible interpretations when the answer is not already known.

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