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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

We're in trouble when it learns to debug.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago

But then, as now, it won’t understand what it’s supposed to do, and will merely attempt to apply stolen code - ahem - training data in random permutations until it roughly matches what it interprets the end goal to be.

We’ve moved beyond a thousand monkeys with typewriters and a thousand years to write Shakespeare, and have moved into several million monkeys with copy and paste and only a few milliseconds to write “Hello, SEGFAULT”