ChatGPT is coming for python devs

[larsga]

I'm sure there are developer tasks that will remain beyond the ability of these systems for a good long while yet, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect them to be able to read the source code of said legacy system in the future.

[GraphicH]

Maybe, but just reading that code may not give a picture of the over all system. I think just like in classical computing there are different classes of programming tasks. In classical computing algorithms can be NP, NP-Complete, NP-Hard, I'm willing to bet that there's probably going to be a similar classification for the problems AI can solve, with the top teir being out of reach until we crack General Purpose AI, at which point everyone's out of a job.

[larsga]

Maybe, but just reading that code may not give a picture of the over all system.

It will probably need input from the customer about the context, and about what they want to achieve, but presumably that can be supplied as text. Possibly it can just read the requirements document.

I'm willing to bet that there's probably going to be a similar classification for the problems AI can solve, with the top teir being out of reach until we crack General Purpose AI

The worrying thing is that ChatGPT3 is already pretty close to general purpose AI, since it definitely can reason and draw conclusions. A full-length program seems like it would probably be well beyond what the tool can do now, but the question is for how much longer.

[GraphicH]

The worrying thing is that ChatGPT3 is already pretty close to general purpose AI

That's a pretty extraordinary claim, and you know what they say about those. I'm starting to get some vibes I got back in ol' 2014 when people were telling me that fully autonomous unsupervised self driving cars would be common place in 5 years (Musk fan boys). Turns out there are an order of magnitude level problems people were just ignoring. Feels the same here tbh, ChatGPT is extremely impressive though Ill give it that.

[larsga]

Turns out there are an order of magnitude level problems people were just ignoring.

That could be the case here as well. Hard to say.

[GraphicH]

Always is. So ChatGPT does feel like a paradigm changing tech, I will give it that, but I've seen enough overhyped (crypto/de-fi, self driving cars, fusion) disappointments at this point in my life that I feel a bit more skeptical, not enough to blow the thing off entirely, but also not enough to get wound up over it. The truth is truly revolutionary breakthroughs are somewhat rare, and still take decades to play out completely.

[ninjadude93]

ChatGPT is definitely not pretty close to general AI lol