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They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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> And it's not joke Then it seems like the author completely missed that « they write the right stuff » remains a complete pipe dream throughout software development. > Looking at the result, it indeed seems like AI is going through what software went through 2-3 decades ago. That would be because AI is a coat of paint on software, and software has not significantly moved from where it was back then. It anything, it’…

AI - really Machine Learning - is "just" massively parallel software for using linear algebra on high-dimensional matrices representing huge data sets. Any programmer today can feed anything into the machine, but as the old saying goes, GIGO.

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Re: They Write the Right Stuff (2021)

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Haha, the reason we use computers is because the work more reliably than humans. By using indeterministic processes, commonly called AI, we effectively make them human. This can yield interesting results, but you don't want a monkey controlling your staged rocket.
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