[Cuis-dev] Off Topic -- AI Programming NOT

[Dr. Nicola Mingotti]

the hype with this chatGPT is huge.

bye
Nicola



On 6/18/23 15:44, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Interesting observation from the article
>
> https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/06/17/1934235/is-ai-an-excuse-for-not-learning-to-code 
>
>
> "It doesn't work."
>
> I would love to have an assistant who keeps me in check, alerting me 
> to pitfalls and correcting me when I err. A effective pair-programmer. 
> But that is not what I get. Instead, I have the equivalent of a cocky 
> graduate student, smart and widely read, also polite and quick to 
> apologize, but thoroughly, invariably, sloppy and unreliable. I have 
> little use for such supposed help...
>
> Fascinating as they are, AI assistants are not works of logic; they 
> are works of words. Large language models: smooth talkers (like the 
> ones who got all the dates in high school). They have become 
> incredibly good at producing text that looks right. For many 
> applications that is enough. Not for programming.
>
> Caveat Programmer,
> -KenD
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