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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Malbolge is a fun one

Edit: Funny enough, ChatGPT fails to get this right, even with the answer right there on Wikipedia. When I tried running ChatGPT's output the first few characters were correct but it errors with invalid char at 37

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cheeky, I love it.

Got correct code first try. Failed creating working docker first try. Second try worked.

tmp="$(mktemp)"; cat >"$tmp" <<'MBEOF'
('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"
`CB]V?Tx<uVtT`Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>
MBEOF
docker run --rm -v "$tmp":/code/hello.mb:ro esolang/malbolge malbolge /code/hello.mb; rm "$tmp"

Output: Hello World!

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Why the fuck does this language exist lol

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm actually slightly impressed it got both a working program, and a different one than Wikipedia. The Wikipedia one prints "Hello, world."

I guess there must be another program floating around the web with "Hello World!", since there's no chance the LLM figured it out on its own (it kinda requires specialized algorithms to do anything)

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That'd be easy enough to test wouldn't it? Ask it to write something else like 'The hippo farts are smelly'

If it needs to understand whatever the fuck that language is to get that output, it either can or can't?

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I’d never even heard of that language, so it was fun to play with.

Definitely agree that the LLM didn’t actually figure anything out, but at least it’s not completely useless