ChatGPT Impresses with its Gardening Knowledge, Though Struggles with Realistic Illustrations

ChatGPT provided knowledgeable gardening advice like suggesting suitable plants and how to care for them based on climate and conditions.

It accurately identified plants from photos in most cases and made reasonable recommendations for improving problematic areas of the lawn.

The AI chatbot conversed back and forth to provide helpful details and sources for its suggestions.

ChatGPT stumbled when asked to generate realistic landscape images, producing fanciful cartoony illustrations instead.

The author was impressed by ChatGPT's confident gardening knowledge and thinks it could be a useful assistant, doing better than a neighbor in some ways.