I asked ChatGPT if it was familiar with Wordle, and it said it was. To test how well it understood the game, I asked it to write a Python program that took as input a target word and a guess for the word. It would output the colors of the guess word. The program is not difficult to write, but it is not entirely trivial.

ChatGPT’s program was close to correct, but it needed some simple bug fixes. Here is what blows my mind even more than the ability to write the program in the first place. When I pointed out the bugs, ChatGPT understood perfectly what I was saying and rewrote the program so that it got rid of the bugs. Does anyone have any idea how it is capable of such understanding?