Is ChatGPT able to beat me at size-optimizing?
What has always fascinated me about computer demos is that they often contained highly optimized code. Back then, this was out of necessity, because computers at the time weren’t very powerful, and it was the only way to display on screen what these demos were meant to show. Later on, it simply became a tradition. I myself took part in a coding contest in 1998 where participants had to implement a given specification in assembly language, and the program with the smallest code size would win. I took first place in that contest. I’d be interested to know if you could come up with a program as small as mine—or perhaps even smaller. That could serve as a measure of whether AI has already reached human-level intelligence. The following protocol is mainly in German. You can use tools such as DeepL for translation. An Computerdemos hat mich immer fasziniert, dass sie oft sehr stark optimierten Code enthielten. Früher war das aus Notwendigkeit heraus, weil die damaligen Rechner nicht se...