The future of AI is looking smarter and smarter! Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been impressed by the skills of AlphaCode, an AI system that can compete with humans in the solving of simple computer-science problems. can often compete with humans at solving simple computer-science problems. Google’s sister company DeepMind, an AI powerhouse based in London, released the tool in February and has now published its results in Science. Results indicate that AlphaCode beat about half of humans at code competitions. Additionally, social media users have been mesmerized by the ability of another chatbot, ChatGPT, to produce occasionally meaningful-sounding (and sometimes sublimely ridiculous) mini-essays on request — including short computer programs. But these state-of-the-art AIs can perform only rather limited tasks, and researchers say they are far from being able to replace human programmers.
“We hope that further research will result in tools to enhance programmer productivity and bring us closer to a problem-solving AI. Indeed, there are already some AI tools good enough to make programmers’ jobs easier, such as one called Copilot, a code-autocompletion service introduced last year by code repository GitHub and based on OpenAI technology.”1
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References
- Castelvecchi, D. (2022). Are ChatGPT and AlphaCode going to replace programmers? Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04383-z
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