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Tradeoffs (lemmy.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

We're in trouble when it learns to debug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

But then, as now, it won’t understand what it’s supposed to do, and will merely attempt to apply stolen code - ahem - training data in random permutations until it roughly matches what it interprets the end goal to be.

We’ve moved beyond a thousand monkeys with typewriters and a thousand years to write Shakespeare, and have moved into several million monkeys with copy and paste and only a few milliseconds to write “Hello, SEGFAULT”