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.
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…
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.
Weird, google might know I only click on stackoverflow links lol
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23059735/fast-maximum-matching-algorithm-for-bipartite-graphs
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”
Find a new algorithm? It’s not creative, it just gave up one it knew about.
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
