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

[Ignacio Sniechowski]

I couldn't agree more.
I guess civilization is misguided -intentionally or not, I left that for
another digression- to "not think." Thinking is the final product of a long
path, sometimes recursive, sometimes overlapped. It includes so many
subjects such as math, reading, writing, observing, introspection...and
then comes the thinking; critical thinking.

AI reminds me of those students who try to memorize instead of learn or
understand. At the core of this issue is the concept of instant knowledge.
Why take the long road if I can ask AI for the code or even ask AI what a
chunk of code is trying to do?

If, finally, AI is to overtake the role of humans, it will not be for its
superiority. Instead, it will be because we have reversed the illustrious
path of enlightenment that humans undertook thousands of years ago. The
following generations will be dumber and dumber and incapable of thinking.
Cheers

*Ignacio Sniechowski*



















On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 10:44 AM ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> 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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