I posted about it in the general forum... https://textadventures.co.uk/forum/general

So, the first question I asked Microsoft Copilot went like this:

You
can you write in quest code?
Copilot
I’m sorry, I don’t know what quest code is. Do you mean the code used by Quest Diagnostics, a company that provides laboratory testing services? If so, I can try to write some examples of their test codes, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy or validity. Here is one possible example:

Quest code for measuring blood glucose level

Test code: 483

CPT code: 82947

Test name: Glucose, Serum

Specimen: Serum (1 mL)

Reference range: 65-99 mg/dL

Clinical significance: Glucose is the primary energy source for the body's cells and the only energy source for the brain and nervous system. A steady supply must be available for use, and a relatively constant level of glucose must be maintained in the blood. Abnormal glucose levels may indicate diabetes mellitus or other conditions.

Is this what you were looking for? 😊

But then after I said that I meant Quest Text Adventures, it went and looked up some information. Then after I gave it the Documentation website and Pixie's GitHub with additional tutorials... it started to be willing to answer questions...

That 's a good sign. I think this is a really important developmental process for Microsoft Copilot AI!
Keep us updated on its progress.
There are things no human mind can yet comprehend, as anyone who's spoken to one of these children must recognize.

I've actually used gpt-4 and Gemini for help with quest coding. They are decent, though not perfect. Gemini seems to be a bit better at certain things, and gpt-4 at others. GPT-3.5 is ok, but much of its fixed data set is limited. An ai with search capabilities works best.

Copilot uses GPT-4, I believe but is now built into Microsoft 365. So through the Edge-browser you get the LLM of GPT-4, a Bing search, and a look into whatever Office 365 stuff it has access to.

I think it is great that AI can be used for coding purposes, I have also read that AI have stole many jobs, war drones, cow feeder, crop waterer, big tech programmer, artist, fast food cashier, bank online consulting, geography drone/laser mapping including hazardous regions like antartica or even penetrating obstacles like underground (history) and pyramid walls, home air con, security demands of areas, chatting companion, some school subject teachers, automated moving vacuum cleaners, customer spending habits, missing plane radar tracking system, pictures, videos, movies, stories, fact books, criminal face tracking security camera, online buy and sell, package delivery, research simulations with real physics.

Yeah, the peculiar bind people who use chat AI's are faced with. But remember AI (calling it intelligent is a bit of a misnomer) is not a substitute for coding knowledge. If I asked it to write a quest game for me, it would miserably fail. It's a helper, nothing more. It constantly messes up. Hell, the other day I was using chat GPT and it hallucinated a non-existent Quest command. I told it that it was completely wrong, that there was no such thing, and it started asking me to correct its knowledge.

Yeah, today it gave me some of what MrAngel calls "frankencode" when I asked it to help me make a ScopeReachableNotVisible function haha. Even after I fed it a bunch of scopes as examples, it still tried to do weird things for several backs and forths

Yeah, very confusing. It will be just spot on sometimes, then massively fail on others. Sometimes if you specifically say "search for solution from" such and such places, or just generally anywhere, it will be of greater help. Also, sometimes saying "I'm using Quest 5.8 to make a text adventure" specifically, then it will perform better. With chat GPT plus, you can also create a custom GPT where you can upload example code (even your own aslx file), libraries, etc., and it will use them as a reference. And you can set the custom GPT for a specific purpose you specify, and it will know what you're talking about generally. I think they are starting to integrate some kind of memory into the model, so at some point it could learn from what you ask it (there is an option to opt out of using your questions/results as training data as well I think, don't quote me on that though). All in all, if you want to use it, prepare yourself for hours and hours of testing its code integrated into your own. In aggregate, its probably faster to just learn more about coding, or rely more on the forums. Turn to it when you're really in a pinch.