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A Valve engineer used ChatGPT to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Deadlock, and now it's in the game [lemmy room: [email protected] ] (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 101 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Dunn acknowledges that he could have found the same answer with the right Google search terms, but says that the point is that he didn't have to: ChatGPT immediately returned what he was looking for even though he described it vaguely.

I remember when google used to return the right results even when the search was vague.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Its so stupid, google "bipartie matching algorithm" and the second result is a stack overflow where the second answer is the Hungarian algorithm....

So every programmer would have found that immediately using the traditional methodology....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yup, AI is frequently a worse way to do something we used to do, but with a crappy pretend to be a person responding veneer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's not what I got. In fact, stack overflow isn't in any of my results. I got a lot of scholarly articles for various algorithms and none of them mention the Hungarian algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

Right? I was thinking that exactly. I remember being in awe by how well google could do that, and now I actually dread having to use it and sift through all the crap.

I guess the same will happen to "AI" once they try to monetize it with ads.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

Same lol. Its incredible how shit it’s been made.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago

Find a new algorithm? It's not creative, it just gave up one it knew about.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Imagine an article for TF1:

A valve engineer used Google to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Team fortress and now it's in the game

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago

The question he asked to ChatGPT doesn't seem particularly vague to me. He used various algorithm names and concepts such that all he really asked is "I want a fruit like an apple but not as round" and it responded with "pear"