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Seems like we’re getting closer to AI driven software engineering. Prompt: a Windows GUI executable that implements a scientific calculator.

adamredwoods 6y ago
Possibly, but in software the realm of errors is wider and more detrimental. Imagery, the human mind will fill in the gaps and allow interpretation. Software, not so much.
- visarga 6y ago
  True, but the human mind needs an expensive, singleton body in the real world, while a code writing GPT-3 only needs a compiler and a CPU to run its creations. Of course they would put a million cores to work at 'learning to code' so it would go much faster. Compare that with robotics, where it's so expensive to run your agents. I think this direction really has a shot.
  - social_quotient 6y ago
    Would someone like GitHub be the right person to solve this? They have ALL of the code.
    - ravi-delia 6y ago
      To be fair, anyone else has almost all the code, since it's all public.
hooande 6y ago
What you'll get is the same thing as GPT-3: the equivalent of googling the prompt. You can google "implement a scientific calculator" and get multiple tutorials right now. You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business. All of these transformers are essentially trained on "what's visible to google", which also defines the upper bound of their utility
- commonturtle 6y ago
  > You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business. Give it 10 years :) GPT-10 will probably be able to replace a sizeable proportion of today's programmers. What will GPT-20 be able to do?
jle17 6y ago
There are some attempts to get AI Dungeon (GPT-2/3 based game) to generate code. This scenario for example (you need to create an account to launch it): https://play.aidungeon.io/main/scenarioView?publicId=af4a05f0-cc52-11ea-a06c-f134f3d35cd1 https://play.aidungeon.io/main/scenarioView?publicId=af4a05f....
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ricardobeat 6y ago
Someone did this simply by giving GPT-3 some code samples last year: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457?lang=en https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457... Strongly recommend watching the whole video!
dustinls 6y ago
Prompt: One self-improving self-optimizing misanthropic quine please
anthk 6y ago
With TCL/TK it's just a few lines put together.

adamredwoods 6y ago

Possibly, but in software the realm of errors is wider and more detrimental. Imagery, the human mind will fill in the gaps and allow interpretation. Software, not so much.

visarga 6y ago
True, but the human mind needs an expensive, singleton body in the real world, while a code writing GPT-3 only needs a compiler and a CPU to run its creations. Of course they would put a million cores to work at 'learning to code' so it would go much faster. Compare that with robotics, where it's so expensive to run your agents. I think this direction really has a shot.
- social_quotient 6y ago
  Would someone like GitHub be the right person to solve this? They have ALL of the code.
  - ravi-delia 6y ago
    To be fair, anyone else has almost all the code, since it's all public.

hooande 6y ago

What you'll get is the same thing as GPT-3: the equivalent of googling the prompt. You can google "implement a scientific calculator" and get multiple tutorials right now. You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business. All of these transformers are essentially trained on "what's visible to google", which also defines the upper bound of their utility

commonturtle 6y ago
> You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business. Give it 10 years :) GPT-10 will probably be able to replace a sizeable proportion of today's programmers. What will GPT-20 be able to do?

jle17 6y ago

There are some attempts to get AI Dungeon (GPT-2/3 based game) to generate code. This scenario for example (you need to create an account to launch it): https://play.aidungeon.io/main/scenarioView?publicId=af4a05f0-cc52-11ea-a06c-f134f3d35cd1 https://play.aidungeon.io/main/scenarioView?publicId=af4a05f....

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ricardobeat 6y ago

Someone did this simply by giving GPT-3 some code samples last year: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457?lang=en https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457... Strongly recommend watching the whole video!

dustinls 6y ago

Prompt: One self-improving self-optimizing misanthropic quine please

anthk 6y ago

With TCL/TK it's just a few lines put together.