AI learns to write computer code in ‘stunning’ advance

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[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not only is this inevitable, but it was likely being used in secret for decades. The coding AI that billionairs and governments have is likely far more advanced than chat GPI.

They only released this to the public to study how people will use it. Open AI will take all the best ideas, which chat GPI will not realize for the users, and use the real advanced AI to create that for themselves.

We are past the tipping point for run away technological advancement and the relative silence is scary.

[–]Alphix 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Couldn't agree more. I remember a crazy advanced (for the time) AI in the late 1980s that invented a new way to divide language into parts, neither syllables nor letters, nor phonetics, something never before imagined. After that? SILENCE. That was 35 years ago.

Sheeple would say, "if they could improve on that, we would know about it right?" ... Precisely, NOT. I think 35 years worth of development from that point puts us way past artificial genenral intelligence, and I am 100% sure that's what's steering the world today.

Somewhere out there in the trillion-dollar club, somebody is using an AGI/QC (quantum computer) hybrid and manipulating the world from its computations. What they likely don't understand in their infinite hubris, is that THEY are being played by their AI.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That wouldn't be the first or last technology that made a debut and then dissapeared. In particular I remember reading a lot about software defined radio on all the tech websites back in highschool. Never had the money to buy it but I loved daydreaming about all the possibilities. Then it vanished. You couldn't buy the hardware anymore. No one made the software. No one talked about it.

Until 20 years later, then it suddenly reappears pretending to be a revolutuonary new invention. Except now everyone upgraded all their tech to be digital and encrypted.

However, quantum computing is a decoy. It can't logically work. And they never stop talking about it, making predictions, hyping up fake Qcomputers, and never delivering.

It's probabaly going to be used to explain away other tech the way Brits said carrots improve vision to explain away radar, and F1 guys pretended to have a new differential to explain away ground effect downforce.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the way Brits said carrots improve vision to explain away radar

Could you go into depth about this, or provide a link that does?

[–]package 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Complete bullshit title and intentionally misleading article. They fed this thing a shit ton of stackoverflow-style questions and then gave it new questions, which it generated millions of candidate solutions for. Of those millions of solutions, it then actually tried to run them and threw out what didn't work. It ended up with about a 34% success rate, with no info given about how efficient those solutions were. Then they had it enter coding competitions, where it did better than 47.5% of participants because online coding competitions often feature a majority of overconfident people that barely even know what coding is and don't have a massive database of indexed solutions from stack overflow like this AI did.

I don't doubt AI is the future but current tech is nowhere near as far along as many would like to pretend.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is an opportunity for most programmers to ask it to solve FizzBuzz for them.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wouldn’t it be nice if anyone could explain what they want a program to do, and a computer could translate that into lines of code?

No.

[–]trident765 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Real world programming often involves understanding the natural world, which computers today cannot do. A very small portion of my work resembles the algorithmic programming challenges on those websites. Most of the problems I solve are: Someone wants to control some real-world thing with their computer, and I have to figure out how to write software to enable them to do this. AIs do not understand the real world, so they are not coming close to being able to do this kind of work.

[–]twolanterns 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

print "HELLO WORLD"

end

now try to tell this AI what you want the program to do - so simple ...

But making many real programs requires specs to define what they are to do EXACTLY - magnitudes more complex - usually with VERY specific details

You have to now put that into some form the AI can figure out - as much work as just programming it in the first place - better to have an AI spot problematic issues - but actually that is not AI - compilers have been doing that for decades.

basic building blocks have long ago been developed (called libraries) but you still had to stitch the components together to do the whole real world task the program was to do.

[–]EternalSunset 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I unironically think that AI will be one of the best and most beneficial inventions in human history. We have to make sure that the current regime and the powers that be don't monopolize and control it though.

[–]Countach_3D 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's literally the story of every technological advance in human history.