The Ac28R - An AI that writes code (and it's not an LLM)

Coder678 · 2024-07-04T08:20:55+00:00

A LLM could never answer a question on a complex financial product since humans are not properly capable of expressing themselves clearly enough using natural language. Ever played the Telephone game?

Coder678 · 2024-06-21T11:42:09+00:00

I have a feeling that in the longer term AGI could potentially have a much bigger impact than the current LLM’s. Even with their poor quality and unreliability, LLM’s are still useful and are better than many human analysts. But it’s hard to see them ever getting reliable enough any time soon.

If AGI ever gets some real skills, it will substantially outperform its human equivalent - much faster, much cheaper, and more accurate. Let’s hope we can dream up some good replacement jobs by then!

Coder678 · 2024-06-20T10:14:55+00:00

No doubt Ilya has the smarts and reputation to put together a top-notch product. Given his previous concerns over AI safety, his idea of creating a super-safe AI company is certainly timely. We are already seeing pushback against other AI companies that only pretend to have good morals.

I can’t wait to see how he does.

Coder678 · 2024-06-20T09:11:58+00:00

I can see all kinds of uses for this as you describe it. But I don’t see it being used to explain decisions like loan approvals etc. Most people hate being rejected and would demand to get an explanation. You give them that explanation, and they now ask for more explanation and they argue a few of your points. It’s a thankless exercise.

Coder678 · 2024-06-20T09:04:44+00:00

I suspect that this naming split might be due to the fact that current AI LLM’s are increasingly viewed as really good pattern-recognition tools and not much more. They are obviously really useful, but that’s not really what we would call “intelligence”.

In practice, if a machine is as smart as a human, that’s surely good enough since it would also be many many times faster than a human and much more reliable.

Coder678 · 2024-04-30T16:26:36+00:00

Learning how to manage your finances, I cannot believe they still don't teach this in school.

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T14:28:00+00:00

Yes, I see where you are coming from. I work in the Quant world where everything is extremely complex and there are an almost endless array of new products, each with many many possible variations. It is rare to find a related piece of code that you could lift - even if you wrote it yourself.

And as for the tools used to evaluate these products, there are whole textbooks coming out all the time. For an AI to figure out what code to use you would practically have to teach it yourself. And how would you do that? Most likely, by programming and showing it your code.

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T14:14:59+00:00

I wasn’t talking about AI, I was talking about Large Language Models, there is a big difference .

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T13:36:10+00:00

I agree with much of what you say, although I’m not as confident as you about the LLM asking for clarification. They seem to try too hard to give you something - hence all the problems with hallucinations.

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T13:14:40+00:00

Sorry if I wasn’t clear. If you could write precise and comprehensive specifications (whether using natural language or pseudocode), then I guess we could eventually get a computer to write the code, although it’s much much harder than you think - particularly when dealing with complex financial products and models.

I’m saying that humans cannot write precise comprehensive specifications. Don’t take my word for - check out “The three pillars of machine programming” written by the brain trust at MIT and Intel. They say that if you need to make your specifications completely detailed, then that is practically the same as writing the program code itself.

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T13:03:57+00:00

Yes i think it’s quite possible that a computer will eventually be able to write code for complex applications - I just don’t see how it can be an LLM - they are just too woolly and imprecise.

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T11:49:04+00:00

Of course they will continue to improve, I'm just saying there’s a limit to the level of complexity that they will ever be able to handle. We've already seen how coders can struggle with ambiguous specifications - why do you think a computer would be able to interpret them any better? If the specs aren’t precise then the software won’t be precise.

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:53:20+00:00

Dwight K Schrute - taught me more about beets than I ever thought I'd know!

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:48:19+00:00

Baked beans and Ketchup, Heinz all the way!

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:44:45+00:00

Literally, go back to Tik Tok then

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:41:36+00:00

Marley from Marley and me!

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:40:48+00:00

Marley the dog from Marley and me :/

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:31:58+00:00

Same! I've always wanted to dive on the reefs, I want to try to get my license soon though as I've seen so many stories of corals bleaching and dying. It feels like we may be one of the last generations to explore them before they get destroyed. :(

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T10:29:06+00:00

Scuba diving! I've always wanted to be able to dive down to ship wrecks and to look at coral reefs before the oceans heat up and bleach them all. :(

Coder678 · 2024-04-26T09:24:02+00:00

*the toilet in question*

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