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My experience of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot etc is that, although they seem impressive at first, that their deep understanding and problem solving abilities are st
by neilalexander 3y ago
My experience of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot etc is that, although they seem impressive at first, that their deep understanding and problem solving abilities are still incredibly shallow. They can knock out trivial boilerplate effortlessly but will more often than not get things completely wrong either when trying to understand existing algorithmic code or when producing similarly complex code of their own. Worse is that they often aren't aware of when they might be producing errors and will respond with a high level of confidence as they serve up either subtle or obvious bugs.
Although these things are developing all of the time, they are still a very long way off being able to deeply reason anywhere near as well as a human being can. It seems premature to worry about the security of a skilled programming job at this stage due to "AI" alone.