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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2022 DecemberGoblinSlayer

About whether AI-generated code that is 95% right is good enough, amid AI art fights.

And GPT can't fix a bug, it can only generate new text that will have a different collection of bugs. The catch is that programming isn't text generation. But AI should be able to make good actually intelligent fuzzers, that should be realistic and useful.

AI fixes a bug in existing code without introducing a new set of bugs.

Has this happened?

Yes 94 (80%)Not sure 15 (13%)No 9 (8%)

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