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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.