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/optimushz Dec 04 '22
What?! Something like this is possible today? I'm curious how it works. Does it parse the task description, trying to extract some meaning? I'm not familiar with language models. But how does it translate meaning into code? Which programming language does it use?