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What you oughta know

OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a powerful tool in the hands of creators.

Cheng used natural language to ask ChatGPT to help make the game.

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ChatGPT created a six-step plan to make Flappy Bird in Unity.

Cheng then followed the steps, but none of the actual code was written by him.

ChatGPT created every line of code and Cheng copied it over.

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ChatGPT didn’t act as a magic wand that made a game from scratch without some help.

I want the camera to follow the bird’s horizontal movement."

ChatGPT then generated code matching Cheng’s prompt.

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It’s not just Flappy Bird that developers have managed to make using ChatGPT.

The game is a recreation of SkyRoads, a title that was available on MS-DOS.

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