Gary Marcus

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3/28/2024, 4:11:29 PM
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Madison
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@GaryMarcus A lot of coding paradigms offered the same false promise. I remember an engineer talking about "block" programming, eg Scratch, when I was in robotics club in high school.

Problem is that genAI writes usable code.
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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@Madison33111620 fair point (though GenAI is offering false promise to nonexperts).
Madison
@Madison33111620
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@GaryMarcus tbf, software development is a security nightmare waiting to happen in anything less than expert hands.
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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Feel this even more strongly a month later, in light of new reports about GenAI downloading and installing (initially) hallucinated software packages that can become malware vehicles.

In anything less than expert hands, GenAI software development is a security nightmare waiting…
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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GenAI is an avalanche of technical debt* waiting to happen

Just this week
👉ChatGPT went “berserk” with almost no real explanation
👉Sora can’t consistently infer how many legs a cat has
👉Gemini’s diversity intervention went utterly off the rails.…

The statement provides a comparative assessment of the potential risks associated with different coding paradigms, specifically Scratch and AI-generated code. It suggests that while Scratch has limited potential for causing harm, AI-generated code could pose more significant risks. The tone is cautionary, and the intent is to contribute to a discussion about the safety and security of software development tools.

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