• underisk@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      the comic is about using a machine learning algorithm instead of a hand-coded algorithm. not about using chatGPT to write a trivial program that no doubt exists a thousand times in the data it was trained on.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        9 months ago

        The strengths of Machine Learning are in the extremely complex programs.

        Programs no junior dev would be able to accomplish.

        So if the post can misrepresent the issue, then the commenter can do so too.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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          9 months ago

          Lol, no. ML is not capable of writing extremely complex code.

          It’s basically like having a bunch of junior devs cranking out code that they don’t really understand.

          ML for coding is only really good at providing basic removed code that is more time intensive than complex. And even that you have to check for hallucinations.

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            9 months ago

            To reiterate what the parent comment of the one you replied to said, this isn’t about chat GPT generating code, it’s about using ML to create a indeterministic algorithm, that’s why in the comic it’s only very close to 12 and not 12 exactly.