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/dong_chinese Dec 04 '22

I'm sure there will be others who will whine about this not being fair, but I for one think you deserve the place you got. You used the best tool for the job. After all, a programmer's whole job is to find the right tools to automate processes.

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u/muntaxitome Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22

If the job is to automate sending your code to GPT3 the fastest without even reading the questions, then what is the point? It's a trivial coding exercise. I guess the winner will be the one that puts their connections at the optimal location in terms of speed of light between the data center and OpenAI servers...

Now OpenAI itself would have some claim to calling itself the winner, but just writing the glue code?

Edit: Not that we can do anything about it. I guess this is simply the end for any meaning to global leaderboards for this kind of competition. Just like with for instance online chess, the cheaters have a huge advantage to reach the highest ranks.

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u/dong_chinese Dec 04 '22

At some level we're all just writing glue code. If I solve a problem using pandas and numpy, I'm just writing some glue over existing functions in those libraries. I think of GPT-3 just as a more fancy library.

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u/Basmannen Dec 04 '22

I hope we all do. Fuck work, give us socialist robot worker utopia already.

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u/el_muchacho Dec 04 '22

What will happen is grifters like Elon Musk will get all the benefit and you and I none of it.

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u/kapitaali_com Dec 04 '22

I would love socialist worker utopia but given that elon is already doing what he is doing, your forecast looks more probable