The world in 10 years will be hard to believe for many of us. Only issue I see now is that the mindshare today is more towards computing. Materials science, robotics, biotech are lagging behind compared to the advances in computing.
AI solves Advent of Code 2022
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Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#12I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…
I’ve had this skepticism until I started asking the bot to do things like “create a limerick using some words that have never existed before and then explain the definition of those words.”
I don’t believe the AI is generalized by any means. But I think it’s more than a Eliza-style parlour trick.
It does really well with facts but misses subjectivity and nuance. Like I ask it to write stories for Seinfeld or Raymond and it misses the tone and style entirely. But it gets all the names and other factual details right. I find it works incredibly well when you want things that are objective, like code or rhymes or comparisons of things.
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#13So you can use a bazillion parameter AI model as an alternative to a web search index.
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#14I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…
You can check this by taking some time to create some specific weird puzzle that is unlikely to have been made in the format you come up with, then see if it can solve it. If you don't write it anywhere then it is being solved for the first time. Just make sure it is a pretty unusual puzzle.
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#15I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems ex…
Yeah it can't solve novel questions. The AI couldn't do much to solve this one for example:
https://codeforces.com/contest/1672/problem/D
ChatGPT is just a very good copy/paste, not a logical problem solver(yet).
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#16I think this is kinda neat (and scary!) I'm doing AoC at the moment too and I'm using the chat GPT thing as a sort of assistant. I don't program in Rust much so sometimes it's difficult to remember certain things and functions. Expressing my intent to the tool seems to come up with decent answers Some example questions I've asked the tool recently: > I want to insert a char into a hash map if it does not exist, if it…
> that's no fun
Is there really any fun in solving problems that you could easily solve with an AI?
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#17So you can use a bazillion parameter AI model as an alternative to a web search index.
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Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#18How long before software engineering roles are in decline because one engineer can leverage GPT to do the work of ten? It's truly a new innovation that requires relearning the toolset. Every generation seems to have some abstraction over the last. This feels like a new way to program.
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#19I think this is kinda neat (and scary!) I'm doing AoC at the moment too and I'm using the chat GPT thing as a sort of assistant. I don't program in Rust much so sometimes it's difficult to remember certain things and functions. Expressing my intent to the tool seems to come up with decent answers Some example questions I've asked the tool recently: > I want to insert a char into a hash map if it does not exist, if it…
> that's no fun Is there really any fun in solving problems that you could easily solve with an AI?
Yes.
Re: AI solves Advent of Code 2022
#20How long before software engineering roles are in decline because one engineer can leverage GPT to do the work of ten? It's truly a new innovation that requires relearning the toolset. Every generation seems to have some abstraction over the last. This feels like a new way to program.
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