Someone has created a ChatGPT app for Windows 3.1 PCs. WinGPT brings a very basic version of OpenAI's ChatGPT responses into an app that can run on an ancient 386 chip. It's built by the same mysterious developer behind Windle, a Wordle clone for Microsoft's Windows 3.1 operating system. "I didn't want my Gateway 4DX2-66 from 1993 to be left out of the AI revolution, so I built an AI Assistant for Windows 3.1, based on the OpenAI API," says the developer in a Hacker News thread.
WinGPT is written in C using Microsoft's standard Windows API and connects to OpenAI's API server using TLS 1.3, so there's no need for a separate modern PC. That was a particularly interesting part of getting this app running on Windows 3.1, alongside managing the memory segmentation architecture on 16-bit versions of Windows and building the UI for the app. Neowin notes that the ChatGPT responses are only brief due to the limited memory support that can't handle the context of conversations. The icon for WinGPT was also designed in Borland's Image Editor, a clone of Microsoft Paint that's capable of making ICO files.
"I built most of the UI in C directly, meaning that each UI component had to be manually constructed in code," says the anonymous WinGPT developer. "I was surprised that the set of standard controls available to use by any program with Windows 3.1 is incredibly limited. You have some controls you'd expect -- push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, edit boxes -- but any other control you might need, including those used across the operating system itself, aren't available."
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neat as a proof of concept
>Neowin notes that the ChatGPT responses are only brief due to the limited memory support that can't handle the context of conversations
this part seems odd though? it's just plain text, even a 386 should be able to handle a lot of plain text, far more than gpt's context window. people ran full GUI word processors on them
should have made a MSDOS application then, they ware always more capable than Win 3, Windows only rise in power due to it having GUIse
Text in the context window isn't plain text, it's tokens in a tree.
This... isn't how this works at all.
You're not sending tokens to ChatGPT via API, you're sending plain text, and OpenAI tokenizes it.
and if it's self hosted it's all tokenizing and shoving it into local memory dumbfrick
did you read the thread?
OP is a homosexual using clickbait titles. it's just a visual wrapper.
>offline ChatGPT
>connects to OpenAI's API server
???
guy just built a chatgpt gui for win3.1, which while cool and all is not at all offline ChatGPT
Zoomers attention span can't go beyond the first 8 words of a paragraph
clickbait Black folkhit. this anon is right. and this one is a homosexual
this isn't really that impressive
he just uses some SSL library to call their and something similar to the Win32 UI toolkit
a freshman college student could have done the same using more relevant tools
how do you explain the massive news coverage then?
moronic sheep
The impressive, really just notable, part is porting a modern TLS library to a 16 bit OS.
The MAN does it again, what a crazy world!
>offline ChatGP
>connects to OpenAI's API server
YOU DIDN'T EVEN READ YOUR OWN POST.
>WinGPT is written in C using Microsoft's standard Windows API and connects to OpenAI's API server using TLS 1.3
could've been worse, he could've proxied the api request without TLS through a more modern computer, this way he actually did at least something
It's fairly impressive actually, tough to fit a modern TLS client into 64K segments. OP is obviously confused though.
you only need segmentation in real mode, I imagine he sidestepped that by just saying "well you need a 386" (ie, protected mode)
Nope.
https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/tls.html
TUMMY SEXX
Nice belly button, can i touch it
Does it redirct to your cat
>WinGPT is written in C using Microsoft's standard Windows API and connects to OpenAI's API server using TLS 1.3,
thanks for wasting my time on your DUMB CLICKBAIT thread homosexual