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> How many colleagues could you ask "Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus? I couldn't
by ihatepython 4y ago
> How many colleagues could you ask "Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus?
I couldn't agree more. I work as a software engineer in the medical field (think MRI's, X-rays, that sort of thing). I've started using ChatGPT all the time to write the code, and then I just fix it up a bit. So far it's working great!
- zachthewf 4y agoHeh, is this a Therac 25 joke?
- auggierose 4y agoI really hope it is a joke.
- ihatepython 4y agoYes
- andreasley 4y agoPlease don't do this here. The topic deserves serious discussion.
- flangola7 4y ago[flagged]
- acadapter 4y agoHumor is a very sophisticated form of communication. Think of how much was said in so few words, by just poking at shared common knowledge.
- zikduruqe 4y agoTragedy is for those that feel and comedy is for those that think.
- smolder 4y agoLots of comedy more or less proves it needn't be thoughtful as opposed to emotional. Laugh tracks, or the particular speaking style of a standup comic, are riding on the feelings they invoke. Being surrounded by real laughter also makes things "feel" funnier. Laughter is contagious. Fart jokes and home-video genital injuries get laughs with no real "thinking" component.
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoPerhaps you're making a point (that eludes me, BTW) by writing clever sounding twaddle. I hope so.
- archgoon 4y ago[dead]
- cutemonster 4y agoAt least we can conclude: Dark humor is for those who both feel and think
- andreasley 4y agoHumor is fine, but when several readers don't recognize it as such, the joke obviously isn't based on shared common knowledge. Some people walk away with wrong information, and that isn't helpful.
- stronglikedan 4y agoSerious discussion deserves sparse contextual humor.
- carapace 4y agoTherac 25 is so serious that jokes are one of the very few ways to discuss it at all, eh?
- d23 4y agoAI? Or medical equipment malfunctions?
- xwdv 4y agoThis joke is how you separate people who know what they’re talking about from the hopeless optimistic crowd. People who just take that joke as serious clearly haven’t thought through the consequences of using code you don’t completely understand and has no real author. Therac 25 is often a key topic in any rigorous computer science education.
- andreasley 4y agoExactly, but is it a good thing to separate people into groups? How does that help?
- fasterik 4y agoSometimes satire is the most effective way to make a serious point.
- Aeolun 4y agoI cannot step in one of those machines without wondering if there is a hardware cutoff.
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- eloff 4y agoI went with a mechanic in a chair lift once. He was very nervous, saying he knows the kind of people who maintain these things, and he knows the kinds of things that can go wrong. I feel the same way about automation, whether it be self driving cars or an X-ray machine. I know the kind of people that program them, and the vast number of ways things can go wrong.
- htrp 4y agoHow many CV engineers own a self driving car becomes the AI equivalent question?
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoI work in the medical device field. Funny you should say that because just yesterday I was looking at some really crappy (but still safe, mind you!) code and wondering how I'd feel if I were being wheeled into the OR, knowing "how the sausage is made."
- Sakos 4y agoDo we at least still use hardware interlocks? I hope we still use hardware interlocks.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoHardware "interlocks" are used when the risk cannot be reduced to an acceptable level by software alone.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago
- weatherlite 4y agoDidn't know this story. Wow that sucks.
- worldsayshi 4y agoWhat holds me back the most from using these tools is the vagueness of the copyright situation. I wouldn't straight out want to use it at work. For hobby projects that I might want to use for something serious one day, I'm on the fence. Developers who use this for serious stuff, how goes your reasoning? Is it just a calculated risk? Reward is greater than the risk?
- stravant 4y agoI just don't care. Google vs Oracle is still being fought a decade on now. What hope does the legal and legislative system have of possibly keeping up here? The horse will well and fully have left the barn by the time anything has been resolved and furthermore if AI continues becoming increasing useful there will be no option other than to bend the resolution to fit what has already passed.
- MajimasEyepatch 4y agoThe Supreme Court decided Google v. Oracle two years ago.
- rbalicki 4y agoThe GP comment was written using ChatGPT- another project that wouldn't have happened without ChatGPT- and the training data cutoff was March, 2021.
- ihatepython 4y ago> Developers who use this for serious stuff, how goes your reasoning? Is it just a calculated risk? Reward is greater than the risk? It seems obvious that AI is the future, and that ChatGPT is the most advanced AI ever created. For me (in the medical industry), if something goes wrong and someone dies a horrible death, I can just say that I didn't write that code, ChatGPT did. Not my fault. Next time you are at the hospital getting an MRI, I hope you think about how it's entirely possible that ChatGPT wrote the majority of the mission-critical code.
- zvmaz 4y agoI couldn't have guessed it was a joke without Therac 25 mentioned.
- still_grokking 4y agoJesus! I hope this is some US fad, and I never ever come across those devices! Instead of using formal methods as they should they use AI, which is more or less the complete contrary.
- hgsgm 4y agoThe AI can generate your formal models.
- clnq 4y agoA strong agree as well. This is going to help me a lot in writing software for large passenger aircraft. The integer types GPT gives me aren't the largest, but I think it knows what it's doing.
- FleaFlicker99 4y agoThe great thing is it can repurpose the code from the old inertial guidance unit since the new one is so close it's basically the same thing. I think that GPT thinks it knows what it's doing.
- olkingcole 4y agoFunny but I have to say that satire has lost a lot of its appeal in these times. It is far too apparent how vulnerable we are to people who don't get it and who will walk away happily unaware and, in this example, MORE confident about using AI for just anything. But surely out institutional safeguards will protect us, right? /s
- throwaway689236 4y agoAre you using ChatGPT Plus?