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Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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> I’ve had this skepticism until I started asking the bot to do things like “create a limerick using some words that have never existed before and then explain the definition of those words.” Sounds interesting! Mind sharing the results?

I’m not saying they’re good. Just that they’re (mostly) following the rules and aren’t just thematically random. https://ibb.co/RpSxcV8 https://ibb.co/883GpHY

That first one is pretty good.

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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This day I asked it not too fundamental questions about Clojure and it was able to provide impressive, accurate answers and provide correct code examples. However if you continue the dialogue and ask it to do more advanced stuff, it will just make up stuff out of thin air. For instance it will use functions that don't exist and claim that they can be imported from packages that don't exist or don't have them. Once yo…

This is how I felt speaking to some people in India. They could speak, but there was zero understanding, as evidenced by their actions. Personally when learning languages I develop ability to understand years before considering myself to be able to speak it, but it is clear that not everybody does that.

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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I submitted this exact idea a few days ago if anyone wanted to see. I see great minds think alike ;).

The issue is that it still takes some human finangling to make it work. But it is able to understand the word problems, even long ones, pretty well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33821092

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…

These first few advent problems are extremely trivial. Solvable Personally I don't see it being difficult for the AI to solve these trivial problems at all.

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…

I’ve had this skepticism until I started asking the bot to do things like “create a limerick using some words that have never existed before and then explain the definition of those words.” I don’t believe the AI is generalized by any means. But I think it’s more than a Eliza-style parlour trick. It does really well with facts but misses subjectivity and nuance. Like I ask it to write stories for Seinfeld or Raymond…

Though it may look amazing it is not really thinking. It is simply capable of using a placeholder word. For HN’s sake AI does not understand anything, it’s just leveraging patterns, patterns that are sometimes complicated for us and that does make a great tool. But it’s just a tool for now.

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…

Does it have access to the web? For one of my questions it answered:

"Unfortunately, I am unable to provide a detailed description of the education system in Poland and its changes over the last 30 years because I have limited access to information and cannot browse the internet."

but I have no idea if it's not lying :)

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…

Yeah it can't solve novel questions. The AI couldn't do much to solve this one for example: https://codeforces.com/contest/1672/problem/D ChatGPT is just a very good copy/paste, not a logical problem solver(yet).

Have you tried describing the algorithm?

https://imgur.com/a/7da1vFj

I used 'z' instead of 'a' to avoid any possible issues with the article 'a'. I think I messed up the assignment of z[l] at z[r] being after its updated, not sure.

But it created the input format, described it and the program ran the first time once i fixed the indents (code formatting is broken for some reason). If I run against the input at the contest page I get NO NO NO NO YES.

Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022

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I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…

I’ve had this skepticism until I started asking the bot to do things like “create a limerick using some words that have never existed before and then explain the definition of those words.” I don’t believe the AI is generalized by any means. But I think it’s more than a Eliza-style parlour trick. It does really well with facts but misses subjectivity and nuance. Like I ask it to write stories for Seinfeld or Raymond…

It's really quite amazing. Inspired by your example, I tried to make it create something which nobody could have thought about before:

Write a deep poem about life, death, and the website Rotten Tomatoes

The result:

Life is a fleeting flame

A dance in the endless game

We come and we go

Leaving our mark, but never to know

What the future holds or who's to blame

Death is the great unknown

A mystery, never to be shown

But Rotten Tomatoes, a website so bold

Attempts to rate our stories untold

As if life and death can be bought and sold.

But in the end, what does it matter?

The ratings, the reviews, the bitter chatter

For in the grand scheme of things

We are but fleeting moments, the faintest of flings

And Rotten Tomatoes, a mere blip on the radar.

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