I think integrations like the MS Word example they show off at the end of the live demo have the potential to be even more impactful than just generating code for programmers.
How did it mess up the "make every fifth line bold" prompt?
Also, to follow up on the original comment, AI demos are nice, but being a student of history there are still fundamental challenges with these systems. My skepticism is in how much prompting is really required and how can it understand higher level semantics like code refactoring, reproducible examples, large scale design patterns etc.
This synthesis of sequential symbolic processes and probabilistic neural generation is really exciting though.
When the amount of human code edits and tweaking for complex programs goes down from hours to seconds then that's when I'll be impressed and scared.
Yeah, definitely. I guess my point was that converting natural language to source code can be even more valuable for people who don't know how to code, but want to perform actions more complicated than a simple button press. For example, I often find myself doing regex based find-and-replace-alls in text files, and even that feels inefficient while also being over the head of the vast majority of users. I'd imagine there are a lot of people out there spending many hours manually editing documents and spreadsheets.
polyanos|4 years ago
jonesn11|4 years ago
Also, to follow up on the original comment, AI demos are nice, but being a student of history there are still fundamental challenges with these systems. My skepticism is in how much prompting is really required and how can it understand higher level semantics like code refactoring, reproducible examples, large scale design patterns etc.
This synthesis of sequential symbolic processes and probabilistic neural generation is really exciting though. When the amount of human code edits and tweaking for complex programs goes down from hours to seconds then that's when I'll be impressed and scared.
3wolf|4 years ago