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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian (amp.theguardian.com)
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Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I've gotten it to give boiler plate for converting one library to another for certain embedded protocols for different platforms. It creates entry level code, but nothing that's too hard to clean up or to get the gist of how a library works.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Exactly my experience as well. Seeing CoPilot suggestions often feels like magic. Far from perfect, sure, but it's essentially a very context "aware" snippet generator. It's essentially code completion ++.

    I have the feeling that people who laugh about this and downplay it either haven't worked with it and/or are simply stubborn and don't want to deal with new technology. Basically the same kind of people who, when IDEs with code completion came to be, laughed at it and proclaimed only vim and emacs users to be true programmers.

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