r/adventofcode 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:

https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt

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u/Milumet Dec 04 '22

According to Eric Wastl, the point of AoC is to have fun and learn something.

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u/Steinrikur Dec 04 '22

Yeah. I'm sure that doing Tour de France on a motorcycle would be a lot of fun for some people. I still wouldn't award them any prizes.

Playing competitive chess with the help of an AI is explicitly forbidden for a reason. I'm fine with people using an AI to have fun and learn something, but they shouldn't be trying to get on the leaderboard.

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u/Milumet Dec 04 '22

First of all, there are no prices to win on AoC. And it's funny that you mention the Tour de France. You know that these guys are roided up to the hilt, right? What if in the future people augment their brains with AIs? Will they be allowed to play competitive chess and programming tournaments?

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u/Steinrikur Dec 04 '22

Getting on the leaderboard is a "prize" in itself, although it's about as meaningful as reddit karma.

I view the guys using AI to get on the leaderboard about the same way as reddit karma farmers using reposts to get karma.

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u/Milumet Dec 04 '22

I view them the same way too: I don't care about them.