Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code?
by segmondy on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:03AM
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Yes it can write code, some demoed developing "Doom", ray tracing/ray casting with GPT-4 the very first day it came out and it was impressive. Programmers would still program, but the program will no longer be code but will be "GPT prompts". I suspect with time tho, we won't need to write amazing prompts, you ask GPT for a solution, it will then figure out the edge cases by asking you questions. If it's 2 people, it would query you both and resolve your conflicts. Programmers will be replaced with AI. We need to get over it, the question we should be asking is, what's next?
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Seems like just a higher level of abstraction: prompts become the input for generating high-level language code as output.
It's an electric bicycle for the creative mind (how long until the first one-person unicorn?), I don't anticipate much success for those trying to use it as a self-driving car for half baked ideas.
How well do you suppose GPT-4 would have done at that task had no human developed raytracing in the first place? Would it be able to derive the construct based on its knowledge of programming and physics?