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Yeah sure llms that can’t write quicksort half the time will end the creation of new languages. They might also end home cooking because they’ll cook all the fo

• jobigoud 2y ago
  It's not the LLMs doing it, it's the people using LLM with languages that work well with LLMs vs with new languages. To your point, it can write quicksort in python easily but maybe not in some esoteric language.
• awongh 2y ago
  To be more specific, new languages will be created, but if people get used to using AI to help them code a new language might not have enough internet discussion around it to enable the AI to write good quality code in that language. It's a self-enforcing negative feedback loop. One that already exists, but could be accelerated when AI assisted coding becomes more and more commonplace. I do think that an LLM today could understand the basics of a language it's never seen before (as long as it's at least somewhat related to a current language). But the AI's code writing abilities will be limited. For example I can ask ChatGPT to tell me if a code example is Pythonic. A slightly different extension of your example would be to ask if recipe writing will be ended forever. The AI basically understands the rules / patterns of how food ingredients are combined together with which techniques. Will anyone bother to write down new recipes anymore in the future if the AI can do just as well? If someone publishes a new recipe it needs to spread prolifically enough on the internet before the AI understands it as a fundamental concept. What do we lose if this is the case?