GPT-4 Creates a Playable Version of Pong in Seconds

When GPT-4 launched earlier this week, OpenAI said it was more creative than GPT-3.5, and as if to prove that, the AI chatbot has started developing video games.

As IGN reports(Opens in a new window), Pietro Schirano, design lead at financial services company Brex and self-proclaimed “AI chef,” asked GPT-4 to recommend the best language to “build a pong like game.” Schirano also stated he wanted lots of people to be able to play the game.

In response, GPT-4 recommended using JavaScript to develop a version of Pong, but went a step further than that and produced a playable version(Opens in a new window) of Pong in JavaScript. If that wasn’t impressive enough, it took the chatbot less than 60 seconds to respond to Schirano’s question with the working example attached.

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Since receiving that surprise response, Schirano has gone on to ask for versions of Asteroids(Opens in a new window) and Breakout(Opens in a new window) to be produced. GPT-4 delivered working versions of each game, and it even added a score system to the Breakout example.

OpenAI has touted GPT-4 as a major improvement over GPT-3.5, and this game-making exercise goes a long way to proving that statement is true. Schirano attempted to get GPT-3.5 to build Pong, but it failed to produce a working example.

Separately, a machine learning engineer who goes by the name of Shota(Opens in a new window) on Twitter managed to get GPT-4 to produce a version of Pac-Man(Opens in a new window). It took the chatbot around 90 seconds to produce the game in a very basic, but working form. Shota admits he doesn’t understand the code GPT-4 created, but it does work and offers a very rudimentary version of the game.