No Human Coders in 5 Years? starts with the many predictions that these new LLM tools will replace all programmers. He makes the prediction instead that the best programmers with work with these tools to be better than any ordinary coder. My problem with this narrative is that it still assumes that the LLM tools… Read More »
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already from Rodney Brooks talks about his long-term study of AI and how he is not really excited about this new technology. The title of this post is his observation about humans mistaking AI.
Chatbots don’t help programmers summarized an article from Bertrand Meyer. Meyer suggests that an AI programming assistant as “a cocky graduate student, smart and widely read, also quick to apologize, but thoroughly, invariably, sloppy and unreliable”. A lot of people suggest that using an AI chatbot as an assistant might not result in a correct… Read More »
Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom
I was listening to episode 2.8 of the Lost Terminal podcast (a science fiction story in podcast form). One of the characters questioned whether a system they had encountered was an AI or just a Markovian Spirit. This is such a wonderful expression for something that appears intelligent at a glance, but on closer examination… Read More »
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004 suggests the some of the seemingly intelligent behavior of LLMs may be more a result of choice in how to measure it, than an actual phenomenon. Definitely need to read and understand the whole article for balance. Plenty of breathless optimism out there already.