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AI solves every river crossing puzzle, we can go home now [content warning: botshit] (gemini.google.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think this summarizes in one conversation what is so fucking irritating about this thing: I am supposed to believe that it wrote that code.

No siree, no RAG, no trickery with training a model to transform the code while maintaining identical expression graph, it just goes from word-salading all over the place on a natural language task, to outputting 100 lines of coherent code.

Although that does suggest a new dunk on computer touchers, of the AI enthusiast kind, you can point at that and say that coding clearly does not require any logical reasoning.

(Also, as usual with AI it is not always that good. sometimes it fucks up the code, too).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's a great example.

The other thing is that unlike art, source code is already made to be consumed by a machine. It is not any more transformative to convert source code to equivalent source code, than it is to re-encode a video.

The only thing they do that is "transformative" is using source code not for compiling it but for defrauding the investors.