After getting OpenAI's Codex to generate a Tetris game (successfully!), I tried to get it to write an implementation of the less well known game Set. It didn't work (after 20 attempts), but some art was made along the way:
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The prompt I used if you want to try
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Tetris game is in this repl: replit.com/@artir/Tetris#scr… It's very basic: the pieces have no colors and the rotation function fails. I tried 2-3 times I think with the same prompt, with no manual fixes.

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Another program: Take a video as an input, sample 100 random frames from it, run them past the AWS Rekognition API to check for illicit content. Use async to speed up the requests. This also worked. Another: OCR a folder full of PDFs and search for a string. This too worked

Nov 3, 2022 · 7:06 PM UTC

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These are all examples that are discussed in my upcoming post
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Ok that latter I’m very interested in seeing / trying
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I threw it away, but basically it pdf2image (Using PIL under the hood) and pytesseract to do it, you could imagine how one would manually write it.
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