News OpenAI - makes coding on the fly

Hi guys,

I am not capable of coding at all
BUT
as I understand OpenAI might be a one in a lifetime experience for you people who know how to code and want their working process to be made much more convenient.

I found this on YouTube.


Have a great day,
later,
ART FLY []-)

With Chat-GPT (Made by Open-AI) gaining popularity, I thought I would try it out. It is really a staggeringly impressive piece of technology. I have taught myself some very rudimentary programming to run motion simulators, wind sims and button boxes over the last few years. AI based tools are going to become increasingly powerful but I suspect also quite deskilling; If I want some basic coding performed now, I can literally just ask AI to design it, but then I am less likely to have the knowledge myself to write a program from scratch.

As an example I've attached some code written by Chat-GPT with a little prompting that you can use to configure another program that it will create to recognise different Arduinos using the Serial.Print command and letting you know the correct COM port. This may be useful for the DIY motion enthusiast, I have several arduinos running motion, wind, gearbox, pedals etc. It's handy having a program that will accurately identify an arduino and not run the risk of flashing the wrong one or configuring the motion software to look for the wrong COM port.

To use the program, you need to first install Python and then run the script. It will open a window allowing you to configure a few parameters. The 'Handshake Message' is what the program looks for the arduino sending. (Add the same phrase as a Serial.println("Handshake"); line in the arduino code). You can also set the BAUD rate and what messages are displayed for success or failure. It will then create an exe file that will use the parameters that you have set.

As an amateur, if I were to try to write this code from scratch, it would have taken me hours, if not days. Instead, I created it in minutes using Chat-GPT. You can literally type in plain language "Write me a program for an arduino that will control 6 servo motors with specified ranges." and then you can add "Please change the code so that the servos can respond to data sent over serial in order to move those servos and also add error checking for the data being sent." You can keep asking questions and asking it to modify the code. It even neatly comments all the code making it easy to change and understand. I've also tried copying and pasting existing code I have written and asked it to improve upon it and it can. It's truly mind blowing stuff how far language learning AI programs have come.

If you are an inexperienced programmer like me or simply want some basic code to modify, I highly recommend trying it out.



*Edited for error in configuration of code

I have never been too lucky with chatGPT creating code. Maybe my requests were a little too specific, but not once ChatGPT generated a working code. Compiling yes - doing what I wished, no. Then you detail where the code is wrong, and ChatGPT overapologizes for the mistake and it gives you a corrected code... often identical to the one you have obtained the first time! I don't know, my experience wasn't that good.

Yep, WRT coding, I agree. If you want to spend all day trying to get it to correct problems then use AI. It may be ok for really small things, but anything that may be useful, forget it.

I even pay for Grok as it's better than ChatGPT, but they both make serious mistakes.
You stand half a chance if you can work out where it went wrong, and get it to fix it, else break the problem into smaller chunks that it can do.

If you have some coding skills, you can spend half your time telling it, that its wrong.

In AI's defence, I now always discuss with Grok, my project outline, because AI quite often makes some very good inputs to the design.
For instance I was exploring a Convoluted Neural Network for Image recognition, and thought I'd create a 3D model of the subject, and procede to manually rotate it to create all my various image set which I'd limit to 100 because it would be hard work and it was only for testing, something that I anticipated would take all day.

AI suggested I could use a CAD program to display the image and that it could write me a program to variably rotate it in all three co-ordinates using the built in Python console. This saved me hours and the Python script included writing the text file containing all the names of the saved images and their orientation. In a few hours I'd created a complete set of 1000 images, and (yes there's an and) another script divided the images into Training/Validation/Testing sets, in the standard percentage ratios. But remember this involved pulling each image and its associated text name/orientation into a seperate file and folder.

So AI definitely has it's uses.