GPT-3: An AI that can write Minetest mods... kinda
OpenAI’s GPT-3 is a powerful new Artificial Intelligence model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It was trained on a large body of text, with sources including websites, Wikipedia, and books. It doesn’t just understand natural language, it can also work with programming languages.
In this article, I will ask GPT-3 to write Minetest code and explore how much it knows about modding, creating simple and advanced Minetest mods. I will finish by using it to convert Minecraft mods to Minetest.
Minetest is a free and open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation capabilities. It has a strong emphasis on community-created content and user-friendliness. Some of Minetest’s benefits include being able to run on a wide variety of operating systems and hardware, having a fully customizable game engine, and being able to create and share mods and other content easily.
GPT-3 has been trained on a large number of code examples, including code for Minetest. As a result, it is able to identify patterns in the code and generate new code that is similar to the examples it has seen.
