Thread: Playing with ChatGPT AI

Oh no! No more Bold and Beautiful, l know someone who will be devastated.

Yes, video's like that surface quite often Did you hear about the one where an LLM was asked "I want to wash my car at the car wash, it is 100m away, should I walk or take the car?" hilarious...

LLM's have been improving at an alarming rate however. These days the hip term is "agentic" and "reasoning". Sure stupid mistakes are still everywhere but if you look at what it can do in the programming, oof.
I have been testing it for my work and I see it as a sort-of junior/medior that can do certain tasks. For instance, it can write boilerplate for my codebase quite well and much faster than I could so totally worth it. Small tasks that have been very well specified will also work quite well although maybe not in one go. Tooling for that exists these days and it is known as vibe coding in hipster talk but apart from that, it is fascinating to watch an LLM go. For instance, I gave it the log files of a webserver and asked it to write a program to identify unique IP addresses, check whether they were local or Chinese, identify bots where possible and make a nice report. It wrote a python script in less than 5 minutes that was tested and worked. Over 18 million lines of log do take a while with python so I asked it to write the "same" code (functionality actually) in C and in less then 5 minutes I had a working and compiled C program that was significantly faster.

I mean, can it write a browser or an OS or something complex? Yes, maybe, if you chop that job up in many smaller pieces and keep your eye on it very closely but from a single prompt? no way. Still, even for all its stupidity it is becoming more useful though I have my doubts we will ever reach the phase where it is really autonomous.

Here is a former microsoft employee teaching an "AI" to play a game and beat him as world record holder. It is quite technical at times but it shows brilliantly how it is done. You "only" need a 60K dell AI machine that can run dozens of emulated 6502 game computers and analyze at a few 1000 frames per second to get anywhere with any speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbpoDjIvPk

Cheers,
-P