Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code?

Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by red75prime on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:20AM (#35193843)

> ways (people on the Internet think)

It reminds me of arguments that it's not the computer that plays chess, but its programmers.

You can describe a GPT's response as a statistical average of responses on the internet (for quite a contrived definition of average), but at some point it will be easier to describe it as analyzing a snippet and forming an opinion (based on what people on the Internet think). Are we past that point? I'm not sure yet, but we are close.

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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by z3c0 on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:52AM (#35194069)

> quite a contrived definition of average

Sure, maybe an argmax mixed with an RNG isn't really an average, but some would say it's quite a contrived definition of forming an opinion.

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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by red75prime on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:15AM (#35194204)

argmax is doing all the heavy lifting there. Consider argmax is_proof_of_P_eq_NP(string)

You can describe solution of any well defined problem with argmax, it doesn't make it trivial.

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