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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by falcor84 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @10:56AM (#44724200)
What makes you categorically say that "AIs can't"?

Based on my experience with present day AIs, I personally wouldn't be surprised at all that if you showed Gemini 2.5 Pro a video of an insect colony and asked it "Take a look at the way they organize and see if that gives you inspiration for an optimization algorithm", it will spit something interesting out.

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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by sarchertech on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:18PM (#44725223)
It will 100% have something in its training set discussing a human doing this and will almost definitely spit out something similar.
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Re:My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaSc... by fc417fc802 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:32AM (#44732015)
That's a good point but all it means is that we can't test the hypothesis one way or the other due to never being entirely certain that a given task isn't anywhere in the training data. Supposing that "AIs can't" is then just as invalid as supposing that "AIs can".
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