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Headline: "DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well as Humans" Actual text: "AI just trounced roughly 50 percent of human coders" I think we a
by commandlinefan 4y ago
Headline: "DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well as Humans"
Actual text: "AI just trounced roughly 50 percent of human coders"
I think we already all knew that about half of the coders out there weren't all that great.
- hgsgm 4y ago
- altgeek 4y agoThat maps rather well to an old routine from George Carlin "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." https://youtu.be/AKN1Q5SjbeI?t=19 https://youtu.be/AKN1Q5SjbeI?t=19
- EGreg 4y agoThat’s what we said when AI beat chessplayers ranked below 1450. “Oh big deal” Now they never lose to any human in any chess game ever.
- bradleykingz 4y agoAnd yet humans still play chess
- Filligree 4y agoBut very few do so for money.
- dangond 4y agoI love how the sheer simplicity of this comment manages to convey so much about humanity and our drive to do things we love. I feel a bit silly reacting like this, but it's truly beautiful.
- patrec 4y agoBut plugged, at times.
- aiphex 4y agoNot many get paid to do it, and those that do are paid because it's entertainment, people like watching them play. Nobody is paying to watch developers code.
- weatherlite 4y agoIt will keep getting better and better though. 5 years from now no reason it won't beat 90% of devs. And then eventually, like in chess, all of them. There is a big question though of how this translates to real world programming. Competitive programming and real world work are not the same thing.
- hoosieree 4y agoAutomation doesn't have to outperform the best of us, it only has to outperform the worst of us to have a serious impact. Outperforming a 50th percentile coder is a huge deal.