Comment by SourceNo2702 on 01/12/2024 at 04:15 UTC*

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AI has been in active development for the past 4 years and still has the exact same problems it did 4 years ago.

In fact, I’m not even concerned about students using AI in university. Hell, I’ve thrown coding projects into ChatGPT to see what it spits out and it’s always either completely wrong, doesn’t actually work, or hallucinates a library that doesn’t actually exist. If you somehow manage to make working code from the garbage it outputs, you’re probably more prepared for the workforce than 99% of your colleagues will be.

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Comment by jegerfaerdig at 01/12/2024 at 12:18 UTC

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AI is so good for boilerplate code. Sure I could spend 25 minutes googling the intricacies of matplotlib for the 50th time, or I could just describe the figure i want in plain text. Sure it's basic and has been done billions of times before, but that's why AI is so good at it.

Comment by Podalirius at 01/12/2024 at 07:04 UTC

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AI has been in development since the first computer was built lmao, it's just made a huge jump "4 years" ago because of the discovery and implementation of accelerating training data through a special kind of chip that was initially designed to generate 3d models and effects.

And now you hear stories about how Google wants to buy a nuclear plant and that all the chip fabs are making chips bound for some mega tech company that is trying to build supercomputers because with the way AI works, the more powerful your computer is the less often the AI makes a mistake.