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Re:AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other pr... by staticelf on Thursday February 23, 2017 @07:29AM (#13713361)
Well, I think the are refering to that the computer would solve it's specific problems by itself just as we do as programmers.

I guess that you have worked for someone else as a programmer? Didn't they tell you what they wanted? How did you achieve it? They probably didn't have to write it for you in very specific terms unless a problem occurrs.

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Re:AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other pr... by scribu on Thursday February 23, 2017 @08:07AM (#13713497)
They achieved it by making a lot of guesses, based on a huge amount of explicit and implicit knowledge about humans, computers and the world in general.

The brute-force approach described in the article, where you just randomly try lines of code without any other knowledge, won't make for a very competent programmer.

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