After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff::The popular developer forum is still hunting for a “path to profitability.”

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    until they figure out how to train AI with AI

    That won’t work because machine learning doesn’t actually understand what it says. It needs real human knowledge underlying it. It can’t just learn things on its own out of nowhere.

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      But maybe if we sacrifice enough ecosystems we could get it to work and then ask it to solve all the climate problems we created to power it…

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      That sounds exactly like what an AI, that was trained by another AI, would say to assuage our fears of General Artificial Intelligence. Nice try.

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      That’s true for general purpose LLMs, but there are other contexts in which machine learning models acquire knowledge without continuous human input, e.g. AlphaZero.

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      Are you honestly playing the “It isn’t as smart and special as a human being” in a thread about stack overflow? Where the answer to the vast majority of questions is:

      1. An insult about not using search correctly and this being a duplicate
      2. Outdated
      3. Outright wrong AND argumentative

      Also: There is a reason Microsoft bought Github. And you can bet that Atlassian and Gitlab are shopping around for buyers.

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          its been quite a while too, they have been training ai to replace programmers using code from there lol