How to Use ChatGPT Intelligent UI: GPT-6’s Interactive Answers

Use ChatGPT on the web for this walkthrough. Start a new Chat, choose GPT-6, and select Medium where available. Leave Pro reasoning unselected. The Chat menu and thinking controls say GPT-6 rather than Sol.

There is no special activation prompt. Intelligent UI can appear when it helps answer your request.

Copy and paste this request:

Create an interactive workshop cost calculator directly in this ChatGPT conversation.

Use five editable inputs: 20 attendees, a $200 fixed room fee, $18 for food per attendee, $7 for materials per attendee, and a $900 total budget. These are fictional US-dollar figures.

Total cost equals the room fee plus the number of attendees multiplied by food and materials per attendee. Show total cost, cost per attendee, and budget remaining. Update every result when an input changes, and label an amount over budget clearly. Keep the formula visible.

Use whole, nonnegative attendee counts and nonnegative dollar amounts. Reject blank or invalid values with a clear message. At zero attendees, retain the fixed room fee and show cost per attendee as “Not applicable.” Start with no buffer, taxes, or other fees.

Keep the inputs and results together, with clear labels. Include a way to restore the starting values. Do not browse, connect apps, book anything, or send information elsewhere. If this chat cannot show an interactive calculator, say so rather than presenting a static picture as a working tool.

Check the labels and starting values before clicking anything. The initial total should be $700, the cost per attendee $35, and the amount left in the budget $200.

The calculation is $200 + 20 × ($18 + $7) = $700. We independently calculated these figures and confirmed them in the live calculator.

Our first calculator worked but stacked the inputs vertically. To keep the inputs and results readable together, we sent this layout-only follow-up and repeated the checks:

Keep this calculator directly in the conversation, but make its layout compact and easy to read on a laptop: arrange the five inputs in two columns and the three headline results in one row, with a short visible formula and a reset control. Preserve every starting value, calculation, validation rule, and the zero-attendee behavior. Do not create a separate webpage or code preview.

When the answer is only text

Ask once:

Show editable inputs and a working calculator inside this conversation, rather than only describing the calculations. Keep the same values and rules. Tell me if this interface is unavailable here.

If it still returns text, use the access checks below. Do not count a static table, generated image, downloadable webpage, or separate code preview as a successful run of this exercise. The specific layout you receive may differ. We did not need this fallback in our test.

Use the calculator’s controls to change attendees from 20 to 30. Use its calculate button if it has one; our version updated immediately.

With the room fee, per-person costs, and budget unchanged, expect:

The per-person cost falls because more people share the room fee. The total still rises above the budget. Check both results before deciding that a larger group costs less.

Look for an explicit $50 over budget warning. A negative number should not appear under a label such as “money available” without explanation.

Check that the calculator preserved the other four inputs. Then restore the starting values and confirm that the $700 total returns. Both checks passed in our run.

Keep the original costs and no buffer. Try these values:

These cases passed in our test. Invalid inputs displayed a message and replaced the calculated results with dashes until the error was fixed.

The room fee stays at $200 even when attendance is zero because that is the rule in our example. Real cancellation terms could differ.

If a result fails a check, use a focused request such as:

At 29 attendees, the room fee is $200 and the per-person costs total $25. The correct total is $925. Explain why this calculator differs, then fix the calculation without changing the inputs. Recheck 20, 28, 29, and zero attendees.

For a control that accepts a fraction, ask it to reject the value rather than silently rounding the headcount:

Reject negative, fractional, or blank attendee counts with a clear input error. Do not silently round the headcount or show a valid-looking total for an invalid value. Preserve the original costs, budget, and zero-attendee rule, then recheck valid and invalid inputs.

We did not need these repair prompts. A neat result with the wrong assumptions still needs correction.

Return to 20 attendees and send:

Add an editable budget buffer percentage, starting at 10%. Calculate the buffer as 10% of the room, food, and materials subtotal. Add it once to get the final cost.

Show the subtotal, buffer amount, final cost, cost per attendee, and budget remaining. Keep the $900 budget, the original cost inputs, the zero-attendee rule, and input validation. The restore control should return to 20 attendees, the original costs, and a 10% buffer.

At 20 attendees, the result should be:

Change attendance to 30 again. The subtotal should become $950, the buffer $95, and the final cost $1,045. That is $145 over budget, with a cost per attendee of $34.83.

This second check tells you whether the revision still responds to inputs. Inspect every result that depends on the new rule; a correct headline total can sit beside a stale per-person figure.

We confirmed both sets of results. At zero attendees, the revised calculator retained the $200 room fee, added its $20 buffer, showed Not applicable per attendee, and left $680 in the budget. Invalid-input checks still worked, and Reset restored the original costs, 20 attendees, and a 10% buffer.

Before using the output in a real plan, ask for a short text record. Copy the checked summary into your planning document:

Give me a short plain-text record of the restored calculator: 20 attendees, $200 room fee, $18 food and $7 materials per attendee, $900 budget, and 10% buffer. Include the inputs, formula, subtotal, buffer, final cost, cost per attendee, budget remaining, and assumptions. Keep these fictional figures separate from real bookings, payments, and messages.

Our text record matched the checked inputs and results. Leave bookings, payments, and messages outside this exercise.