I was going to keep this account free of #MachineLearning stuff, but I keep finding that I find Mastodon's 500 character limit a bit ... umm ... limiting 😛

I already posted this over on the other account as two separate posts but I feel that it would work better as a single post. So here goes ...

I know this certainly is not representative of all scenarios, but the time of coding AI’s isn’t here just yet would be my guess based on a single interaction I had today with a coding "AI" 😛 (I put "AI" in quotes intentionally, there is no "intelligence" involved here ...)

I asked a new coding helper (that I learnt about and installed today) to write me some code to convert from WordPress to another system and it gives me something which say, “Use these two classes which do the grunt work and you’re set” (See screenshot for exact interaction).

So I ask it to give me the code for one of those grunt classes … It spins for a while and fails. So yeah, not quite there in terms of replacing coders yet, maybe?

Of course, I should add the disclaimer that if you did search for the file mentioned in the code (wordpress-importer.php) you will find it in a GitHub repo. It is certainly possible that that code would work if you knew to find the file/library, add it to your project, and get it to all work correctly.

But at the moment, it looks as if what you really get when you use these systems is "glimpses of code" that the system has seen before more so than an intelligent and cohesive answer ...

Of course, as somebody said, "it's hard to make a foolproof system since fools are so ingenious" ... but still, if you call it an "AI", it should be able to do a bit more than give you a partial answer, right?

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