Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by EarlKing on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:19PM
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...except you don't need an infinite number of monkeys. It has been trained to produce protected expressions by virtue of being trained on protected expressions. The probability of it producing a protected expression at some point is 1.
Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by theonlybutlet on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:10PM
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The same truth holds for you or me writing up that code.
Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by EarlKing on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:09PM
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No it doesn't. My mind contains information derived from expressions I've read which I can rearrange into novel expressions. I don't regurgitate protected expressions verbatim. Co-Pilot does.
Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by theonlybutlet on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:32PM
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That's exactly what co-pilot does, ask it to rearrange it if what it comes up with is the same. That's what code plagiarism checkers are for.
In Uni, students run their theses through plagiarism checkers, even if it's novel research as it naturally occurs.
As the thought experiment goes, given infinity, a monkey with a typewriter will inevitably write Shakespeares works.