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It seems like it probably took the author 50x as much work as it would have to just write some slime sounding words out by themself as well as a couple grammati

It seems like it probably took the author 50x as much work as it would have to just write some slime sounding words out by themself as well as a couple grammatical rules for the forms of those words, and a python script that kinda works?

fnordpiglet 4y ago
I don’t think their goal was to make a slime language called Glorp. If it were, I’m sure you’re absolutely right they could have done it without breaking a sweat. But try this, get your laptop out and start typing into its prompt to create a new language for slimes and see how much longer it takes you. That’s the amazing part - that a general purpose program is able to do the exercise at all with no training, specialized coding, but from natural idiomatic language and keep enough of a language grammar context in state to (usually) produce and translate that language back and forth, and then assemble it in a functioning imperative program from its internal state. Of course, I’m sure your laptop can do it to. Let us know!
- furyofantares 4y ago
  I agree with you, and it's amazing. But the claim was that it's an example of how much more you can get done with ChatGPT when it seems like an example where the author got a lot less done than they would have with notepad.exe
  - fnordpiglet 4y ago
    But this isn’t an example of that it’s an example of “wow that’s amazing” In the realm of getting a lot more stuff done, I’ve been using it as a companion to explain a new language I’m learning right now. It’s super useful to ask it about language constructs, idiomatic ways to do X, is this way of doing Y good, etc. It’s saved me hours of using Kagi to soft through semi relevant pages stuffed with SEO and ancient answers from stackoverflow that are completely irrelevant other than a few matched key words.
    - furyofantares 4y ago
      Your post seemed dismissive of mine, given the tone of suggesting I just try to get my laptop to generate a slime language from the command prompt or something. But my post was a reply to "This is a great example of how much more you can get done with tools like ChatGPT" and it seems like you agree that it isn't.
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fnordpiglet 4y ago

I don’t think their goal was to make a slime language called Glorp. If it were, I’m sure you’re absolutely right they could have done it without breaking a sweat. But try this, get your laptop out and start typing into its prompt to create a new language for slimes and see how much longer it takes you. That’s the amazing part - that a general purpose program is able to do the exercise at all with no training, specialized coding, but from natural idiomatic language and keep enough of a language grammar context in state to (usually) produce and translate that language back and forth, and then assemble it in a functioning imperative program from its internal state. Of course, I’m sure your laptop can do it to. Let us know!

furyofantares 4y ago
I agree with you, and it's amazing. But the claim was that it's an example of how much more you can get done with ChatGPT when it seems like an example where the author got a lot less done than they would have with notepad.exe
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  But this isn’t an example of that it’s an example of “wow that’s amazing” In the realm of getting a lot more stuff done, I’ve been using it as a companion to explain a new language I’m learning right now. It’s super useful to ask it about language constructs, idiomatic ways to do X, is this way of doing Y good, etc. It’s saved me hours of using Kagi to soft through semi relevant pages stuffed with SEO and ancient answers from stackoverflow that are completely irrelevant other than a few matched key words.
  - furyofantares 4y ago
    Your post seemed dismissive of mine, given the tone of suggesting I just try to get my laptop to generate a slime language from the command prompt or something. But my post was a reply to "This is a great example of how much more you can get done with tools like ChatGPT" and it seems like you agree that it isn't.
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