If you ask ChatGPT these days to write a computer program, it often does a remarkably good job. Not only will it implement an algorithm for you nearly instantly, but it will also give you a good explanation for how that algorithm works, and why it took the approach that it did.<\/p>\n
But given that all programs written by generative AI are pastiches — bits and pieces from a vast training set of existing human implementations cobbled together — I wonder whether there are specific limits to what genAI can do.<\/p>\n
In particular, are there prompts you can give it that will always fail? Are there particular kinds of computer programs that a generative AI simply cannot write, either because they are outside that training set or else because they also call for a form of reasoning that is uniquely human?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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