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I'm new to StackOverflow so anything I'm doing wrong, please tell.

I'm a high school student who has grown up using Scratch, and I found it incredibly useful in inspiring young people to code. Now that I've learned python, java, and actually completed some in school and online courses, I wanted something to explore for the summer.

I was wondering if there can be a ChatGPT implementation to work with a Scratch project. Specifically, a plug-in or extension that when requested, will create sprites, write blocks of code, and answer any other technical questions for the user. I know that these implementations have been done for other more serious languages, but as far as I know there is not anything complete or working for block-code, education-oriented programming platforms.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? If you have any idea on the feasibility of this project over the summer, or what keywords to search for, or if this has been done yet, I would really appreciate the comment. I have already spent two to three days researching, but have reached many many dead ends. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have tried a few different directions

  • seeing if you can convert sb3 scratch files in an editable form in other line-by-line languages
  • researching the feasibility of creating an extension with Scratch
  • finding previous works that uses a line-by-line approach to create Scratch-like projects

The closest thing I've come across that might work is CreatiCode's Scratch extension, but honestly I just don't understand it and there doesn't seem to be an accessible way to try it out.

Raymond Lin
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    From what I've been told, GPT's actual program source-code is not particularly interesting - the work into GPT is all into the billions of network parameters (weights, biases, etc) which allow it to _somehow_ do-what-it-does. So, **yes** you can build a neural-network in Scratch, just as you can with practically any Turing-complete language - but you won't be able to get close to even a fraction of GPT's power because (as per my understanding of Scratch's runtime) you'll have no way of getting it to scale to a massively-parallel system - or even as a GPU shader program - for training it. – Dai Jul 12 '23 at 23:56
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