[m-users.] ChatGPT

[Sean Charles (emacstheviking)]

This,
> 
> I'd be hesitant to run any code it generates without checking it first!


This is EXACTLY the reason I stopped using CoPilot. It was taking me more time to read and verify that the code it auto-generated made sense so in the end I just trusted myself more than a machine learning algorithm.


> On 31 Dec 2022, at 02:40, Michael Day <mikeday at yeslogic.com> wrote:
> 
>>> * do you know the programming language mercury?
>>> 
>>> Yes, I am familiar with the programming language Mercury. Mercury is a
>>> general-purpose logic programming and functional programming language,
>>> with a strong static type system and a declarative syntax. It is
>>> designed for writing and maintaining large, complex software systems and
>>> is particularly well-suited for applications in which the ability to
>>> reason about the code is important.
>> ...
>> It's doing somewhat better than it was earlier this month when I asked
>> it to tell me about the Mercury programming languange.  Then it spat
>> out a few (mostly accuarate) paragraphs and showed me the Hello World
>> example, in Haskell!
> 
> It's amazing what these things are capable of, but they still break in fundamental and unexpected ways, like it correctly abbreviates destructive input to "di" and then a few paragraphs later redefines di as "difference-in".
> 
> I'd be hesitant to run any code it generates without checking it first!
> 
> Michael
> 
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