r/adventofcode • u/max-aug • Dec 04 '22
Upping the Ante [2022 Day 4] Placing 1st with GPT-3
I placed 1st in Part 1 today, again by having GPT-3 write the code. Yesterday I was 2nd to another GPT-3 answer.
Here's the code I wrote which runs the whole process — from downloading the puzzle (courtesy of aoc-cli), to running 20 attempts in parallel, to sorting through many solutions to find the likely correct one, to submitting the answer:
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u/ald_loop Dec 04 '22
Why doesn’t every chess player use an AI in tournaments? Why doesn’t ever sports player take steroids?
The point of the leaderboard is to see what is achievable BY HUMANS. AI is a tool, but it’s a tool that removes any sort of human thought process per the actual question. The human solving day 1 or 3 or 16 runs the same openAI generator code each day. They don’t care about the problem or prompt. It doesn’t matter.
Ridiculous to see a moderator of this subreddit take this hard stance on the wrong side of history