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A few months ago I asked ChatGPT to implement pong. It didn't do so well: https://gist.github.com/Netruk44/6e384cb315475bebc8e4e0f1d09.... It's visibly pong, but it doesn't function.

Flappy bird is more complicated than pong, and GPT4 apparently did it in 'one shot'. I think there's improvement being made, even if it's not as impressive as you'd like it to be.



I don't know about that. Check out the other GPT-related thread on the front page right now. GPT-4 fails to solve programming problems that are much simpler than writing a whole game (even a relatively simple one). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35193188

It's really not impressive to me. Humans are gullible and want to anthropomorphize computers. Every time someone claims a LLM like GPT-* can do something apparently amazing, we're seeing the ELIZA effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect) in action.


That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying you should find it impressive or amazing. What I am saying is that things are visibly progressing (before: badly written pong, today: successful flappy bird clone), regardless of how impressive one finds it.

Of course, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. But I don't have access to GPT4, so I can't check how it does on Pong written in PyGame.


ChatGPT doesn't program, it copy-pastes from public sources like Github and StackOverflow.

So the more versions of Flappy Bird are online, the easier for ChatGPT to generate something that works. Difficulty of problem doesn't matter.


Any software developer can access GitHub and StackOverflow - can they do it in a single shot as quickly as GPT?

I'm amazed how much resistance there is to one of the biggest technological advancements in history. And this is JUST getting started.


>Any software developer can access GitHub and StackOverflow - can they do it in a single shot as quickly as GPT?

I think the answer to this question is yes? If the developer can find a working example that they can copy paste (which is what GP is saying GPT-4 is essentially doing).

It’s actually just as likely for GPT-4 to have pasted a broken code example than a working one; it doesn’t understand if the code is correct.


> ChatGPT doesn't program, it copy-pastes from public sources like Github and StackOverflow.

Sounds familiar




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