On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 at 17:02:55 UTC, Vladimir
Marchevsky wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 at 12:24:07 UTC, FeepingCreature
wrote:
Anyone who says large language models aren't *really*
intelligent now has to argue that programming doesn't require
intelligence.
In case that really needs some arguing, I would say translation
is not a programming.
The other day I was watching a video from programmer (Jason
Turner from C++) writing a raycasting[1], but for what it seems
he didn't know the math behind the intersection between
line-segments, so he decided to ask chatgpt to come with an
answer based on attributes/properties he had already written and
the AI generated a version based on this.
There was a problem with one sign in a expression and the
raycasting was a mess, but on the other hand the programmer
couldn't fix because he was just copying and pasting and de
admittedly didn't know the math. He was only able to fix it when
someone in chat pointed out the "sign problem".
I think the state of all that was sad, I mean people will not use
their brain anymore? - But on the other hand there is something
going on since the AI was able to generate an algorithm based on
specs given before hand in this specific language (Python), but I
saw other videos with other languages too.
What I mean by all this, we are at the beginning of this trend
but I can't imagine the outcome, I don't know for example if the
case of this topic is a good or bad thing yet, but I keep
wondering about what the new programmers coming in the future
will face.
Finally I didn't want to derail the topic but the subject was
already raised by the original poster,
[1] - (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0lSqedQau6w) you can change
yewtu.be for the google one with ads if you wish.
Matheus.
