I tried it on three "dead" languages: - a bubble-sort in Pop-2 - a system of linear equations solver in IMP-80 - the array concatenation example in SNOBOL 4 from Rosetta Code. It got the first one right -- despite 'array' access being written 'subscr(index, array)' -- and the second one almost right -- mistaking an nxn array for a 2n array. It got the third one (which I had stripped of comments) right too.
It's impressive. And it's impressive because it's clearly NOT based on analysing a large corpus of code in the language you give it (because there IS no corpus of Pop-2 and the available corpus of IMP is both limited and very sparsely commented. Not much SNOBOL either. On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 20:07, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > Of course everyone is talking about ChatGPT, and I saw a post to > ExplainCode and didn’t expect it to understand Smalltalk, so was impressed > that it does! Presumably the Tonel Smalltalk code on GitHub has helped > along with numerous articles? > > Try it out: https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/ > > I gave this simple example: (1 to: 100 by: 3) reject: [:i | i isOdd] > > And got this (neat eh): > > The code above is written in the programming language Smalltalk. > > It creates a collection of numbers from 1 to 100, incrementing by 3 at > each step. This is done using the "to:by:" construct where the starting > value is 1, the ending value is 100, and the increment is 3. > > The resulting collection is then filtered using the "reject:" method, > which takes a block of code as an argument. In this case, the block checks > whether each element (denoted by the variable i) is odd by using the > "isOdd" method. If an element is odd, it will be rejected from the > collection. > > So, the final result is a collection of all even numbers from 1 to 100, > incrementing by 3 at each step. > Share this explanation with colleagues: whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/a0ec56e >
