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Comment by bluegatty

"The AI made a compiler, but it wasn't that novel, so AI is not novel" is a very poor rhetorical foundation

Man - just think about what you said

Two years ago that would have been beyond shocking.

If 'AI is making compilers' - then that's 'beyond disruptive'.

It's very true that AI has 'reversion to the mean' characteristics - kind of like everything in life ..

... but it's just unfair to imply that 'AI can't be creative'.

The AI is already very 'creative' (call it 'synthetic creativity' or whatever you want) - but sufficiently 'creative' to do new things, and, it's getting better at that.

It's more than plausible that for a given project 'creativity' was not the goal.

AI will help new language designers try and iterate over new ideas, very quickly, and that alone will be disruptive.

"The AI made a compiler" is an argument for the disruptive power of AI, not against it.

parent bluegatty 7 months ago

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