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1. mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 01:30:04 UTC mhoye

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   Sometimes, when you're confronted with a problem, you might think "I know, I'll use machine learning!" And now you have an arbitrarily large number of other people's turing-complete problems. Each of which will come as a surprise.

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   • mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 01:30:05 UTC mhoye

     It's kind of amazing, but in this post Google's AI team describes replacing code that doesn't compile with code that does compile, does something different, and now includes exploitable buffer overflow errors as "advancing the state of the art."

     https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html

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