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EEVblog 1531 - Can ChatGPT generate all the code for my Macgyver Project? (Part 3)
Can ChatGPT generate all the code for my Macgyver Project?
Does ChatGPT understand what 7 segment displays and shift registers are, and can it integrate that knowledge with Arduino programming? Let's find out!
This is Part 3 of the Magyver project.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yosozyeIP4
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr2XyhpUdUI
00:00 - The Macgyver Project Part 3
00:48 - Change of plans, let's use ChatGPT!
01:35 - The functional schematic
04:08 - Describing our circuit so ChatGPT's language based system can understand it
05:22 - The art of Prompt Engineering
09:37 - What I'm expecting
10:09 - Just a bit more information required
10:32 - Let's use ChatGPT and watch it crash!
11:25 - It works!
14:43 - It's done it!
15:30 - Let's use the conversational system to modify the code
16:42 - Are programmers out of a job?
17:47 - Does the code work on an Arduino?
20:04 - What went wrong?
21:30 - Can we hack it to work?
23:35 - Can ChatGPT fix its own code?
24:56 - It crashed again. Don't rely on online AI!
25:37 - I can't even pay for it!
25:55 - It knows it made a mistake, and the power of conversational chat
26:47 - Does it's modified code work?
27:37 - When the AI apologises it gets even more confused!
29:51 - It had it correct (but buggy) all along.
30:38 - Go back!
31:01 - Human to the rescue!
32:45 - WINNER!
34:02 - Conclusion. Can ChatGPT code?
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