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Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality by sdenton4 on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:38PM (#34022188)
Sub-token manipulation is a known weakness of the models; they are fed blocks of characters, not individual characters, and so they underperform on tasks that require fine-character-level manipulations.
Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality by kqr on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:58AM (#34026438)
But in that case I would have wanted to see it present a number that's at least of the right order of magnitude, even if all individual digits were incorrect. A human can adapt to their known weaknesses.
Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality by sdenton4 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:59AM (#34029610)
Optical illusions expose fundamental issues in human perception, which we generally can't adapt to. This is similar.