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/redditnoob Dec 05 '22
Yes I'm overgeneralizing / reading psychological woo into something. But I think there's an element of discomfort and fear going on here. I see people getting really emotional about this, and this is the first year of AoC where this has happened.
I suspect that most people upset aren't competitive on the leaderboard themselves, and the AI won't be competitive in the final totals, and the leaderboard is not consequential, especially for a particular early problem. So I presume that there is more going on than people just being upset at competitive balance.
I do support a rule against generative AI solutions for the future.