Comparing Lists - ChatGPT; is it Reliable for Recommendations?

According to a report from Australia, which considered the responses of 1,370 people from several different coffee shops. Below are what the respondents chose to be their priority factors when choosing a coffee shop, the percentages corresponding with the number of them who ranked these factors in their top five.

Coffee taste/strength – 88%
Coffee quality – 87%
Convenient location 84%
Pleasant ambience – 76%
Quick service 73%

Australians are known to be the ultimate coffee snob, playing a huge part in their culture, having put their nose up to the notorious Starbucks, closing all shops back in 2008. And so these will be the factors I will be using to determine the order of this list.

To have a basis of what coffee shops to visit and rank accordingly, Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, better known as ChatGPT was used to answer "Top 10 coffee shops in Glasgow". The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot gave the following answers:

1. Papercup Coffee Company

2. The Steamie

3. Avenue G Cafe

4. Laboratorio Espresso

5. Riverhill Coffee Bar

6. Kaf Coffee

7. McCune Smith Cafe

8. MILK Cafe

9. Tinderbox

10. Buchanan Street Coffee

To note, as ChatGPT is still in its infancy stage it remains to have much progress to go before it will be completely up-to-date with live information from the internet. As such, the tenth position 'Buchanan Street Coffee' cannot be sourced, whether this used to be a cafe or is a mistake on ChatGPT's behalf is unknown. Although more likely have closed, as positions seven, three, and two are now closed down, unfortunately, you won't be able to try out these coffee shops.

So we will opt to use instead Cafe Nero, Greggs, Starbucks, and Costa based in Glasgow. These have the highest amount of coffee stores around the UK, as well as being the most widely recognised coffee shop brands. The list now looks like this:

1. Papercup Coffee Company

2. Costa

3. Starbucks

4. Laboratorio Espresso

5. Riverhill Coffee Bar

6. Kaf Coffee

7. Greggs

8. MILK Cafe

9. Tinderbox

10. Cafe Nero

Will these coffee shops in reality really match up to expectations?

We will examine the Top 10 list given by ChatGPT in the following blog posts, keep your eyes peeled as you will not want to miss out on the opportunity to finally find out 'Does ChatGPT actually give good recommendations?'. Not only this but will allow both native coffee lovers in Glasgow and those travelling to the city the ultimate guide to a great cup of coffee.

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