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17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web
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What it demonstrates is the actual use case for AI is not All The Things.
Science research, programming, and . . . That’s about it.
It should not be used for programming:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/#:~:text=%22Our%20analysis%20shows%20that%2052%20percent%20of%20ChatGPT,of%20preferred%20ChatGPT%20answers%2C%2077%20percent%20were%20wrong.
I'm not entirely sure why you think it shouldn't?
Just because it sucks at one-shotting programming problems doesn't mean it's not useful for programming.
Using AI tools as co-pilots to augment knowledge and break into areas of discipline that you're unfamiliar with is great.
Is it useful to kean on as if you were a junior developer? No, absolutely not. Is it a useful tool that can augment your knowledge and capabilities as a senior developer? Yes, very much so.
They answered this further down - they never tried it themselves.
I never said that.
I said I found the older methods to be better.
Any time I've used it, it either produced things verbatim from existing documentation examples which already didn't do what I needed, or it was completely wrong.