I spent a bit of time playing with chatGPT to see what it could do. So
did my two sons - one an MS in biotech, the other a PhD in theoretical
physics. We all came to the same conclusion - chatGPT is a very, very
good Google search that can filter many different possible 'answers' and
come to one that is 'most likely' based on various factors. It has
little to no creativity or understanding of what it is asked to do.
Not surprising, but different than what the popular press seems to say
about it.
One of my questions was to write a simple sort routine in HLASM. It came
back with a template containing the entry/exit code, and then a comment
*insert sort routine here*. After doing that with many different
simple tasks, I came to the conclusion that the problem chatGPT has with
assembler (but not with C, Python, Java, etc.) is that there are so few
searchable examples of code in assembler. So the quality of the
results, for any question, depends upon what exists out on the
Internet. Again, not surprising.
As another example, I have an interest in what is called 'historical
analysis'. There are a number of books on the subject, so I asked
chatGPT to compare/contrast two of the books. Then two other books,
etc. In literally every case it came back with the same introductory
text and conclusion - but inserted a couple of paragraphs that was
similar to a book review for each book and compared the 'differences'.
Not very impressed.
My PhD son uses it to find obscure hypotheses and formulas that would
otherwise require a great many hours (or days) of searching. My MS son
uses it in a similar fashion to ferret out alternative options for the
various cell growing and protein extraction for his job. A very useful
tool, but not yet SkyNet...
YMMV.
On 9/5/2023 9:36 AM, Bill Johnson wrote:
We are all retired. The other 2 went before me. I went in July 2022. You’re an
idiot regardless. What are you afraid of? That a computer can do what you do?
That your “skills” aren’t all that impressive and can be automated away?
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On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 12:25 PM, David Spiegel
<00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Hi Bill,
I have a better idea.
Why don't you and the 2 buddies who helped you modify the IEFUSI fix it?
Probably because you don't have the wherewithal (even with 2 helpers).
Regards,
David
On 2023-09-05 12:04, Bill Johnson wrote:
Lol, how about going to chatgpt and asking the same question. So that cut and
paste isn’t a factor.
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On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 12:02 PM, David Spiegel
<00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Hi Steve,
It won't. The first executable statement is missing a comma between
operands.
Regards,
David
On 2023-09-05 11:43, Steve Thompson wrote:
I doubt it will assemble. And even if it does, the results are
unpredictable, other than it will probably ABEND for one reason or
another.
There are no DCB, OPEN, CLOSE macros while GET and PUT are being used.
Me thinks this AI system is confusing a few different assembly
languages together. I wonder how close they came for DOS I/O.
Steve Thompson
On 9/5/2023 11:20 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
You're right, Tom. That is not a program. Certainly not one that will
do what it claims to do.
-- Tom Marchant On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 10:42:51 -0700, Tom Brennan
<t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote:
I can't be sure I formatted it properly, but after looking over the
code, I have nothing to say but WTF? 😄
PRINT NOGEN
TITLE 'Simple Addition Program'
** Define storage for input numbers and result
*
NUM1 DS F First input number
NUM2 DS F Second input number
RESULT DS F Result of addition
** Main program
*
MAIN C 0 NUM1 Check if NUM1 is zero
BE ZERO Branch to ZERO if true
** Read the first number from input
*
GET NUM1,NUMIN Read NUM1 from input
LA 0,NUM1 Load NUM1 into register
** Read the second number from input
*
GET NUM2,NUMIN Read NUM2 from input
A NUM1,NUM2 Add NUM1 and NUM2
ST NUM1,RESULT Store the result in RESULT
** Print the result
*
PUT RESULT,NUMOUT Print the result
** Terminate the program
*
SR 15,15 Set return code to 0
BR 14 Return to caller
** Define input and output areas
*
NUMIN DC F'0' Input buffer for numbers
NUMOUT DC F'0' Output buffer for result
ZERO DC F'0' Constant zero
END MAIN End of program
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