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Post by yeldarb »

I created this site using a Fast.ai trained language model using the Stack Overflow data dump.

Full writeup available here: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html

Interesting things I’ve noticed so far:

* It does a remarkably good job of context switching between programming languages based on the semantics of the question! If the question is about SQL it often includes SQL in tags. If it’s about JavaScript it will include JavaScript! The syntax isn’t perfect due to the tokenizer mangling some things but it’s pretty close!

* The English grammar isn’t perfect but it’s pretty good.

* It doesn’t seem to lose closing track of closing tags and quotes.

* It's learned to sometimes pre-emptively thank people for their answers and to "edit" in "updates" at the end of the post.

If you find any interesting ones you can share them with the permalink! Use the "Fresh Question" button to load a new one.

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Post by 8bitsrule »

This one is clearly written by a broken agent: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/1450

Reminds me of those online chatbots I used to torture back 10 or 15 years ago. One I started asking about personal information about its creator. It was remarkably evasive, constantly attempting to switch the subject.

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Post by natch »

Fascinating. I wonder if our current discussion boards on the interwebs can survive the coming influx of content like this and the next generations of it that follow.

There are a lot of SO questions posted by very weak non-native speakers of English and some of these are hard to distinguish from those. Kind of scary!

What possible positive outcomes do you see for this kind of (admittedly inevitable) capability?

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Post by exolymph »

yeldarb wrote: post #2

I created this site using a Fast.ai trained language model using the Stack Overflow data dump. Full writeup available here: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html Interesting things I’ve noticed so far: * It does a remarkably good job of context switching between programming languages based on the semantics of the question! If the question is about SQL it often includes SQL in tags. If it’s about JavaScript it wi…

Thanks for including permalinks to questions, that's great for sharing!

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Post by Angostura »

natch wrote: post #6

Fascinating. I wonder if our current discussion boards on the interwebs can survive the coming influx of content like this and the next generations of it that follow. There are a lot of SO questions posted by very weak non-native speakers of English and some of these are hard to distinguish from those. Kind of scary! What possible positive outcomes do you see for this kind of (admittedly inevitable) capability?

I was thinking the same, as my immediate reaction was to attempt to understand the question and formulate a solution
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