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Comment by ben_w

This is mostly false.

> It doesn't design architecture.

It can do that. Won't say it's amazing, but it can do it.

> It doesn't think. It doesn't reason.

Can you define these in ways that aren't tautologically limited to humans? I have yet to encounter anyone who has managed this while making such an objection to any form of AI.

> All it does is search for and copy-paste code from elsewhere on the internet.

They provably don't work like that. Both because local models exist, can be run offline, still spit out code to solve problems; and because some world records have been set by them, for some CS-related maths problems the best known method was invented by an AI which used an LLM as a component.

https://the-decoder.com/openais-ai-beats-every-human-at-atco...

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...

parent ben_w 3 months ago

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