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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by visarga on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:17PM (#27813323)
Seems like humans are more creative when they can get inspiration from language models.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04007

Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by bshanks on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:42PM (#27816368)
Ironic if AIs end up being more useful for creativity than for detail-oriented tasks.
Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by jessmartin on Monday July 12, 2021 @09:46PM (#27816938)
I honestly think this is where things are going. Man-machine partnership on creative tasks. Not only is it more amenable to current models, it’s higher leverage and less likely to be completely automated away.

I wrote a little about this shift to what I think of as “conversational programming”: https://jessmart.in/articles/copilot

Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by atatatat on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @07:15PM (#27827384)
You're not going to get it out of a generation of people raised by tablets, needs to come from somewhere.