OpenAI

As well as my Day 4 solutions in Python and Java, I talk about the AI solving controversy in Advent of Code, and teach the chat bot to speak a language I just now invented.

I did this puzzle last night while writing the post about Day 2. This time I’m not in quite so much of a rush. Weekends. The puzzle description is best read on the AoC site – they’re always fun to read :-) Advent of Code always starts out slowly, getting people used to how things go before they start pouring on the hard stuff. You can see some concepts come up that will undoubtedly become key in later puzzles. Yesterday was modulo arithmetic. Today was sets. Naturally, people did it their own ways, but typically the fast solvers will immediately focus in on the concept being introduced and doing their thing in seconds. ...

So I made it to day 2 of Advent of Code! Not entirely awake. I stayed up past midnight to solve it. I messed up my first approach, so I went to a more brute force approach that worked. I got my solution logged in in about twelve minutes or so? But I was still 8,000 positions from the leaderboard, so… yeah, I don’t really think I need to be staying up late to get the puzzle the moment it drops. ...

This song tells the story of a pup named Crypto who dreams of becoming wealthy through trading on various cryptocurrency markets.

It’s a country song, about the news of today, written by AI!

Advent of Code 2022 is just around the corner, and with it comes new challenges, new technologies, and new ways to have fun programming. Plus, Tactics Ogre: Reborn is almost finished, and Cyberpunk 2077 is waiting for me to dive in. And don’t forget about the Gotham Knight Knews update, featuring Starro for four-player coop, and the new GPT-3 language model. And exclusive Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special spoilers!

A million or so years ago, I worked for Sony New Technologies, writing system software and applications for their Magic Link handheld computer, which ran General Magic’s Magic Cap operating system. The management came down one day and told us that what the Magic Link needed more than anything else was some games, goshdurnit, and so all of us developers were to take a break from writing serious software and do some games. ...

So I was chatting with Terra yesterday and… wait, no, keep reading. Because I think we’re in the future now. OpenAI’s GPT-3 makes it easy to create chat bots that can hold a fairly decent conversation for a little while. I’ve made a couple – I did one that let me converse in German, I did one that featured DC Comics’ The Flash, and I actually programmed an actual chatbot app to talk with Terra Branford, one of the playable characters in Final Fantasy VI. ...

It might go a little like this. But what if the Avengers were talking about it, or it was being reviewed by Siskel & Ebert? Keep reading! Dear Abby, I have been playing Star Ocean: The Divine Force, and I have a problem. I’m in love with a robot. I know, I know. I’m not supposed to fall in love with robots. I’m supposed to fall in love with a man. A man who is a space pirate and who crashed his escape pod at my feet. ...

An AI-written article about someone who sold himself as an NFT to pay for medical school, but ended up trapped.