c/pcgaming · by alessandro@lemmy.ca · 1y

A Valve engineer used ChatGPT to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Deadlock, and now it's in the game [lemmy room: !deadlock@sopuli.xyz ]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/valve-chatgpt-deadlock-algorithm/

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10 Comments

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 1y (6 replies)

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.

thann@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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....

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

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.

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

thann@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Weird, google might know I only click on stackoverflow links lol

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23059735/fast-maximum-matching-algorithm-for-bipartite-graphs

aStonedSanta@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y

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

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y

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.

Clent@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y

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"

heavy@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 1y

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

saigot@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y

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