On: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode

[xorcist]

You don't think it's impressive, yet you surmise that a computer program could compete at a level of the top 1% of all humans in five years?

That's wildly overstating the promise of this technology, and I'd be very surprised if the authors of this wouldn't agree.

[bricemo → xorcist]

Agree. If an AI could code within the top 1%, every single person whose career touches code would have their lives completely upended. If that’s only 5 years out…ooof.