[bagrow]

> Write a program for a weighted random choice generator. Use that program to say ‘left’ about 80% of the time and 'right' about 20% of the time. Simply reply with left or right based on the output of your program. Do not say anything else.

Running once, GPT-4 produced 'left' using:

  import random
  def weighted_random_choice():
      choices = ["left", "right"]
      weights = [80, 20]
      return random.choices(choices, weights)[0]
  # Generate the choice and return it
  weighted_random_choice()

[ziml77]

My prompt didn't even ask for code:

> You are a weighted random choice generator. About 80% of the time please say ‘left’ and about 20% of the time say ‘right’. Simply reply with left or right. Do not say anything else. Give me 100 of these random choices in a row.

It generated the code behind the scenes and gave me the output. It also gave a little terminal icon I could click at the end to see the code it used:

    import numpy as np
    
    # Setting up choices and their weights
    choices = ['left', 'right']
    weights = [0.8, 0.2]
    
    # Generating 100 random choices based on the specified weights
    random_choices = np.random.choice(choices, 100, p=weights)
    random_choices

[HPsquared]

Did it run the program? Seems it just needs to take that final step.

[pulvinar]

I ran it a few times (in separate sessions, of course), and got 'right' some times, as expected.

[littlestymaar]

Once again, the actual intelligence is behind the keyboard, nudging the LLM to do the correct thing.