[Haskell-cafe] GPT & Haskell

[Dominik Schrempf]

Well, it seems like GPT4 gets most of the questions right. This was more of a scary read than a funny one to me!

Dominik

On April 1, 2023 8:18:08 AM GMT+02:00, "Aloïs Cochard" <alois.cochard at gmail.com> wrote:
>How can this be useful when you have to anyway review everything is doing
>as he might to just randomly insert a bug or a security flaw???
>I prefer to read poems by my human friends.
>
>I highly recommend starting reading this paper at page 128 instead of
>wasting your time on that prompt:
>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
>
>Be ready for a good laugh
>
>Sincerely yours
>
>
>On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 05:36, William Yager <will.yager at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 7:27 PM Mig Mit <migmit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How is it going to benefit anyone though? English, like all natural
>>> languages, is terrible for describing algorithms.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The other day, I asked ChatGPT to solve a boring but non-trivial
>> programming problem I had:
>>
>> > I have a png file which contains a bunch of 5x7 bitmap font characters.
>> Write a python program which reads in the png, and then for each character
>> in the png, extracts the 35 bits of each character and assembles them into
>> an integer.  The final output should be a list of integers, each integer
>> containing a binary representation of each character in the font.
>>
>> It did this basically perfectly.  It wasn't precisely matched to my
>> format, but only because I was ambiguous in the problem statement. I gave
>> it a little more context about the image format and it did it exactly right
>> on the second try.
>>
>> I also asked it to write an inverse function of this, which it did
>> perfectly in Python, and did pretty well in Rust, although with a small and
>> understandable bug.
>>
>> Very useful!
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>
>
>-- 
>*Λ\oïs*
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