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> How long before AI becomes half as intelligent as the average programmer making said programs undebuggable by the average programmer? It doesn't work this wa
by owl57 4y ago
> How long before AI becomes half as intelligent as the average programmer making said programs undebuggable by the average programmer?
It doesn't work this way. A programmer with a bit of experience knows to curb the desire for cleverness and write code they — and their teammates, probably having comparable intelligence and even less knowledge about specific code — can debug.
Unless they are on a coffee trip and hacking on a cool weekend project, of course. Now that's another question, what in the hell will AI's weekend projects be.
- benj111 4y ago>A programmer with a bit of experience knows to curb the desire for cleverness Are you suggesting AI will know to curb it's cleverness so that mere humans can understand it???
- owl57 4y agoSetting aside all that debate about future AI agency and focusing on currently known mode of operation, why not. I haven't tested, but GPT-4 may already know enough to act on "this part of my/your code is too clever, please rewrite it simpler" and "please add this feature to that program, and don't be too clever".
- scarface74 4y agoGPT3 could do that.
- benj111 4y agoYou're suggesting that "too clever" is a 'known unknown'. If it's an unknown unknown how can you spot the too clever thing to request that it's simplified? Edit: further, that assumes an AIs definition of simple matches that of a human programmer. If there's anything we've learnt recently, AI doesn't think like humans.