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Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by arnaudsm on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:53AM (#33854168)
You summarized modern AI : good for cherry-picked demos, not reliable enough for the real world.

We need more fondamental research to break that barrier.

Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by hoosieree on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:24PM (#33857472)
Depends on your definition of "the real world". The hardest real world problems are out of reach (and always will be, because we'll keep moving the goalposts), but it's already capable of handling easy real world problems, and we have quite a lot of those.

For example, it can answer homework problems and even help design lesson plans, but it can't design a lesson plan that resists ChatGPT-based cheating:

https://alexshroyer.com/posts/2022-12-04-Hello-ChatGPT.html