ChatGPT can train you LSL and even write code for you — kinda

After I first tried out ChatGPT late final yr, I observed that many individuals had been utilizing it to jot down code. Python. Javascript. Even machine language. So after all I requested it if knew LSL, the Linden Scripting Language utilized in Second Life and OpenSim.

It mentioned no. I used to be dissatisfied however not too stunned. In spite of everything, LSL isn’t one of many huge languages. It in all probability doesn’t have sufficient coaching knowledge.

Right this moment, for some random motive, I made a decision to attempt once more, and it not solely knew LSL, however might clarify the way it labored. Perhaps I worded the query unsuitable final time?

It will probably even discuss concerning the variations between LSL and OSSL, the OpenSim Scripting Language, and write OSSL-specific scripts.

Warning: It’s not excellent

We’re nonetheless within the beta launch of ChatGPT.

It makes errors.

So take a look at all code fastidiously. Nevertheless, if there’s an error, you possibly can ask ChatGPT to repair it.

And in case you don’t perceive why it did one thing, or desire it took a special strategy, you possibly can inform it that, too.

The corporate behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, is engaged on enhancing its accuracy — and the billions simply invested by Microsoft will certainly assist.

From what I’m listening to, builders are discovering that ChatGPT can already considerably pace up their workflow, however that it doesn’t utterly substitute them. But.

After I requested it to recreate the Very Simple Greeting Script by Jester Knox, it took fairly a little bit of prompting. On the primary attempt, it forgot a key step. After I pointed that out, ChatGPT apologized and rewrote the script with the step added. Then I requested it to make use of completely different instructions than it had chosen.

All in all, it took it 4 tries to get to the precise script I used to be searching for.

My verdict?

Proper now, ChatGPT is sort of a very junior programmer who nonetheless makes numerous errors, is supremely assured of their talents, however is not less than prepared to confess after they’re unsuitable.

I can positively see the potential right here for creating easy scripts, particularly if I must tweak these scripts rather a lot.

However the huge deal right here, after all, isn’t in what it may possibly do proper now, however in what it will likely be capable of do tomorrow.

“Right this moment, the dimensions of the biggest AI computations is doubling each six months, far outpacing Moore’s Regulation,” Google CEO Sunchar Pichal said in a post last week.

So if a giant a part of your day-to-day workflow entails writing LSL or OSSL scripts, it is perhaps time to search for methods wherein ChatGPT can pace issues up. For instance, you possibly can ask it so as to add feedback to current code. You’ll be able to ask it to stipulate a coding challenge. You’ll be able to ask it to jot down documentation, or to create barely completely different variations of scripts. When you don’t perceive how one thing works, you possibly can ask it to clarify it to you.

You’ll be able to even paste in an current script — perhaps one thing from the Outworldz free scripts collection — and ask ChatGPT what the script does, then ask it to recommend some methods to make use of this script in an OpenSim grid.

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