I’m trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    2 months ago

    AI doesn’t do feelings

    How can I have a serious conversation with these annoying answers? Come on, you know what I am talking about. Even an AI chatbot would know what I mean.

    Any AI chatbot, even “general purpose” ones will read your code and will return a description of what it does if you ask it.

    And particularly AI would be great at catching “useless”, “weird” or unexplainable code in a repository. Maybe not with the current levels of context. But that’s what I want to know, if these tools (or anything similar) exist yet.

    Thank you.

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      2 months ago

      Questions about AI seem to always bring out these naysayers. I can only assume they feel threatened? You see the same tedious fallacies again and again:

      • AI can’t “think” (using some arbitrary and unstated definition of the word “think” that just so happens to exclude AI by definition).
      • They’re stochastic parrots and can only reproduce things they’ve seen in their training set (despite copious evidence to the contrary).
      • They’re just “next word predictors” so they fundamentally are incapable of doing X (where X is a thing they have already done).