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An AI that is intelligent enough to create a full program without supervision could rather just be asked to do the task instead.
by zamalek 4y ago
An AI that is intelligent enough to create a full program without supervision could rather just be asked to do the task instead.
- lolinder 4y agoA language model can generate a computer program but will never be able to turn a dial on its own.
- zamalek 4y agoNeither can a program that it creates?
- lolinder 4y agoFair, I was less thinking a physical dial and more a metaphorical one. It wouldn't be able to do the computation that is required to do the right thing, even if it can produce a program that can do the computation. You could hook the program up to a python interpreter and approximate that, but then you're still generating code, not doing the task directly. In order to have an AI that will do the task directly, we would need to train a different model, not just plug the one we have directly in to the task.
- zamalek 4y agoI am arguing that if it can't do the computation required to turn the dial, then it is highly unlikely to be able to make a program that does so.
- imtringued 4y agoThis is actually why this whole topic is overblown. The AI can manipulate text, ergo it can replace programmer's because they can only manipulate text. It won't replace a janitor because it has no hands but then again, if the model's only claim to replacing programmers is that it produces text, then the article is pretty weak.
- haxiomic 4y agoAI text transformer with arms https://youtu.be/Ybk8hxKeMYQ https://youtu.be/Ybk8hxKeMYQ
- sacrosancty 4y ago