Post AlecrSJW50PyIGqycy by franco_vazza@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AleckA8ZGH5btQFqoC by drmambobob@ecoevo.social
       2024-09-04T08:34:06Z
       
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       I've read people say that if you use ChatGPT for coding, sometimes it invents new functions to do something that an existing function can do. I don't know if this is true as I don't use ChatGPT for anything, but if this is true, then how would a coder who never learned proper coding be able to determine if the code they're using actually does what they believe it's doing? I think this is a problem if you're dealing with big data and you can't actually tell just by looking at the output.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlecrSJW50PyIGqycy by franco_vazza@mastodon.social
       2024-09-04T08:35:23Z
       
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       @drmambobob  absolutely, it has now become super risky to use ChatGpt for this ! can confirm it creates plausible but unrelated functions to what one had in mind.
       
 (DIR) Post #AledD3QDJANxSnHjSy by drmambobob@ecoevo.social
       2024-09-04T08:39:19Z
       
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       @franco_vazza That is really worrying...I don't know anything about computer science or software development, but I can envision business analytics or business-focused data science going down that route.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aledct5MMRaIw1qhNI by noodlemaz@med-mastodon.com
       2024-09-04T08:38:47Z
       
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       @franco_vazza @drmambobob it was always 'risky' to use a fancy number generator for anything of mild importance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AledctqrVpa9JM4dPs by drmambobob@ecoevo.social
       2024-09-04T08:43:58Z
       
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       @noodlemaz @franco_vazza 'Fancy number generator' is an excellent way to describe ChatGPT!
       
 (DIR) Post #AleepNQzRyp0UPUBEG by franco_vazza@mastodon.social
       2024-09-04T08:57:26Z
       
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       @drmambobob @noodlemaz Tbh, it's meant to be language-mimicing tool, so it was not crazy to expect it to wort at its best to **translate** coding languages (not to create code from scratch). It also occasionally worked well to speed up things. But then probably too much garbages and coding dialects entered into that, which made it unreliable.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aleks4jK33wJ4ZjLZg by dn_mason@mas.to
       2024-09-04T10:05:09Z
       
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       @drmambobob Whole interesting discussion about this idea specifically within the realms of #ImageAnalysis here: https://forum.image.sc/t/preprint-alert-and-call-for-contributions-llms-for-bio-image-analysis/98719?u=dnmasonEspecially in relation to less popular languages, and other potential uses of LLMs.