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Seems like we’re getting closer to AI driven software engineering.

Prompt: a Windows GUI executable that implements a scientific calculator.

What you'll get is the same thing as GPT-3: the equivalent of googling the prompt. You can google "implement a scientific calculator" and get multiple tutorials right now.

You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business.

All of these transformers are essentially trained on "what's visible to google", which also defines the upper bound of their utility

> You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business.

Give it 10 years :) GPT-10 will probably be able to replace a sizeable proportion of today's programmers. What will GPT-20 be able to do?

Possibly, but in software the realm of errors is wider and more detrimental. Imagery, the human mind will fill in the gaps and allow interpretation. Software, not so much.

True, but the human mind needs an expensive, singleton body in the real world, while a code writing GPT-3 only needs a compiler and a CPU to run its creations. Of course they would put a million cores to work at 'learning to code' so it would go much faster. Compare that with robotics, where it's so expensive to run your agents. I think this direction really has a shot.

Would someone like GitHub be the right person to solve this? They have ALL of the code.

To be fair, anyone else has almost all the code, since it's all public.

There are some attempts to get AI Dungeon (GPT-2/3 based game) to generate code. This scenario for example (you need to create an account to launch it): https://play.aidungeon.io/main/scenarioView?publicId=af4a05f....

Someone did this simply by giving GPT-3 some code samples last year: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457...

Strongly recommend watching the whole video!

Prompt: One self-improving self-optimizing misanthropic quine please

With TCL/TK it's just a few lines put together.

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