I agree that this could be helpful for finally getting to that natural language programming paradigm that people have been hoping for. But there’s going to have to be something capable of logically implementing the low level code and that has to be more than just a statistical model of how people write code, as trained on a big collection of random repositories. (I’m open to being proved wrong about that!)

The 90% accuracy could just arise from the fact that the tests are against trivial or commonly solved tasks, so that the exact solutions to them exist in the training set. Anything novel will exist outside the training set and outside of the model.

Performing procedural tasks using a statistical model of our language will never be reliable. There’s a reason why we use logical and proscriptive syntax when we want deterministic outcomes.

He wanted a Nobel Peace Prize after he saw that Obama got one. He wanted his silly little parade after he saw Macron get one. Maybe it’s time to show him what some other rulers got.

Not just that, but the most dangerous thing about marijuana comes from it being illegal. A cop catching someone with pot will do more damage to their life than the weed ever could.

For those upmodding, this guy is saying that the Irish are antisemitic because they’re speaking out against the Israeli genocide. Just to make that clear.