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14th May 2024

OpenAI unveiled their latest model, GPT-4o, yesterday.
And, boy is it a mighty fella.

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You can currently play with it (as far as I've found!) on either OpenAI's Playground, or using Poe.com. I've also (I think) managed to chat with it via the iOS app, but I can't find any way to get the version on the app, so I can't say for sure if it's the right one!

.. I'm sure there's oodles of other ways, too.

It's shockingingly fast, even when you consider that the server must, right now, be getting absolutely hammered to pieces.
But it's coping admirably well.
I keep getting the odd cut-off responses, and the iOS app keeps responding with "having issues right now.", but otherwise it's nice and fast and pretty damn clever when you ask it things.

I drag'n'dropped the JSE command list onto it (using the Poe.com site) and asked it to make a version of Flappy Bird.


Graphics 800,600

// Game Variables
PosX = 200
PosY = ScreenHeight() / 2
SpeedY = 0
Gravity = 0.5
JumpStrength = -10
Score = 0
GameOver = 0

// Pipe Variables
Dim PipeX(5)
Dim PipeY(5)
PipeWidth = 80
PipeGap = 200
PipeSpeed = 3

// Initialize Pipes
for i = 0 to 4
    PipeX(i) = ScreenWidth() + i * (ScreenWidth() / 5)
    PipeY(i) = Rand(150, ScreenHeight() - 150)
next

Repeat // Main loop
    CLS 135,206,235 // Clear the screen with sky blue

    if GameOver == 0
        // Update Bird
        if GamePad(ButtonA) > 0.5 or MouseDown() == 1
            SpeedY = JumpStrength
        endif
        SpeedY = SpeedY + Gravity
        PosY = PosY + SpeedY

        // Update Pipes
        for i = 0 to 4
            PipeX(i) = PipeX(i) - PipeSpeed
            if PipeX(i) < -PipeWidth
                PipeX(i) = ScreenWidth()
                PipeY(i) = Rand(150, ScreenHeight() - 150)
                Score = Score + 1
            endif
        next

        // Collision Detection
        for i = 0 to 4
            if PosX > PipeX(i) - PipeWidth / 2 and PosX < PipeX(i) + PipeWidth / 2
                if PosY < PipeY(i) - PipeGap / 2 or PosY > PipeY(i) + PipeGap / 2
                    GameOver = 1
                endif
            endif
        next
        if PosY < 0 or PosY > ScreenHeight()
            GameOver = 1
        endif
    endif

    // Draw Bird
    SetColor 255,255,0
    Oval PosX, PosY, 20, 20, 32

    // Draw Pipes
    SetColor 34,139,34
    for i = 0 to 4
        Rect PipeX(i), PipeY(i) - PipeGap / 2 - ScreenHeight(), PipeWidth, ScreenHeight(), 1
        Rect PipeX(i), PipeY(i) + PipeGap / 2, PipeWidth, ScreenHeight(), 1
    next

    // Draw Score
    SetColor 0,0,0
    SetFontSize 32
    Text 10, 10, "Score: " + Score, 0

    if GameOver == 1
        SetColor 255,0,0
        SetFontSize 64
        Text ScreenWidth() / 2, ScreenHeight() / 2, "Game Over", 1
        Text ScreenWidth() / 2, ScreenHeight() / 2 + 64, "Press R to Restart", 1
        if Inkey() == "R"
            // Reset Game
            PosX = 200
            PosY = ScreenHeight() / 2
            SpeedY = 0
            Score = 0
            GameOver = 0
            for i = 0 to 4
                PipeX(i) = ScreenWidth() + i * (ScreenWidth() / 5)
                PipeY(i) = Rand(150, ScreenHeight() - 150)
            next
        endif
    endif

    Flip
Forever

Which isn't perfect, and definitely needs some fixing up.
It's used the Inkey() command wrong. It expected it to work one way, but it doesn't. Is that a "my coding" issue, or a "GPT coding" issue? I'll let you decide.

But otherwise, it understood how to do the Dim's, which other AI's have failed on, and got all the drawing stuff pretty much spot on.
Obviously it can't use Symbols. I think I need to come up with a set of default symbols that people/none-people can use. It'll make it a bit easier.

Gameplay wise, the horizontal space between pipes is a bit crazy-narrow, and you can't actually get past any of the vertical gaps, so the game's entirely unplayable.
But .. It runs..!!
Can't argue with that!!!

So, I guess I'm out of a job, now.
The end of AGameAWeek is in sight, and all future blog posts will be written by AI, and probably have much less double-triple-quadruple exclamation points all over the place.

In the meantime, then, here's a song I didn't write,

: Download

And here's a picture I didn't draw, either.
Good grief.. There's nothing left for me to do...

Goodbye everybody!

"Cartoon @Derek holds the power of A.I. in the palm of his hands. A smartphone lit up with a glowing screen." by #ArtFlow.ai

Don't worry.. I'm working on a fun little game!!

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