Re:GitHub Copilot investigation
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:14AM
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> It is likely that
Here's the real problem:
We're on a forum in which most of the participants are in at least the
top 0.1% of technical ability, and yet here we are waving our hands
and speculating on "what AIs think" and how "they probably/likely
compute" things.
Last week I met with a director of a new "AI" research group, chuffed
to the nines with a massive research grant he just landed. I'm happy
for him, with only one little concern - that he knows nothing
whatsoever about machine learning or mathematics and outspokenly
doesn't believe that "knowledge is that important in the new reality".
Copyright infringement is an inconvenience for people who worry about
that sort of stuff. Sure. But don't you all see a much more serious
issue? It's bad enough that code is already so precariously bloated
and over-complex nobody bothers to debug critical applications any
more. Now we want to add "assistance" from tools that nobody
understands.
Here's the real problem:
We're on a forum in which most of the participants are in at least the top 0.1% of technical ability, and yet here we are waving our hands and speculating on "what AIs think" and how "they probably/likely compute" things.
Last week I met with a director of a new "AI" research group, chuffed to the nines with a massive research grant he just landed. I'm happy for him, with only one little concern - that he knows nothing whatsoever about machine learning or mathematics and outspokenly doesn't believe that "knowledge is that important in the new reality".
Copyright infringement is an inconvenience for people who worry about that sort of stuff. Sure. But don't you all see a much more serious issue? It's bad enough that code is already so precariously bloated and over-complex nobody bothers to debug critical applications any more. Now we want to add "assistance" from tools that nobody understands.