DeepMind, a UK-based AI company, has taught some of its machines to write computer software – and it performs almost as well as an average human programmer when judged in competition.
AlphaCode works by training a neural network on lots of coding samples, sourced from the software repository GitHub and previous entrants to competitions on Codeforces. When it is presented with a novel problem, it creates a massive number of solutions in both C++ and Python programming languages. It then filters and ranks these into a top 10. Finally, these were assessed by humans and the best were submitted into the competitions.
At Copilot’s launch, GitHub said that about 0.1 per cent of its code suggestions may contain “some snippets” of verbatim source code from the training set. The company also warned that it is possible for Copilot to output genuine personal data such as phone numbers, email addresses or names, and that outputted code may offer “biased, discriminatory, abusive, or offensive outputs” or include security flaws. It says that code should be vetted and tested before use.
News about the development in the field of AI makes us feel emotions similar to human joy or pleasure. Great Job!
Drawing fair electoral boundaries should be a doddle
Well, there goes my job security.
Yeah, the very same ones it creates.
AI writing code, how wrong could that go😂 Maybe we should call it: Self Keeping Yet Not Evil Technology (SKYNET for short.)
Average, between wich ranks? Programmers and engineering? Programmers and non-programmers? Programmers and Nobel prize owners? Need to collect more data.
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