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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] G_M0N3Y_2503@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Code is probably one of the easiest things to verify, for that reason I struggle to see any other viable uses for LLMs tbh.

user: write code that correctly asserts what 1+1 equals.
LLM: assert_eq!(1 + 1, 4);
LLM: hmmm, that crashed.
LLM: assert_eq!(1 + 1, 3);
LLM: hmmm, that also crashed, I must be doing something wrong, let me try one more time.
LLM: assert_eq!(1 + 1, 2);
LLM: that worked!
LLM Response: assert_eq!(1 + 1, 2);

user: what does this sentence mean? "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
LLM Response: This doesn't mean anything, or someone really likes buffalo's

I can always run the code to check, I still don't know how that sentence makes sense.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Code is probably one of the easiest things to verify

LOL!!!!

[–] G_M0N3Y_2503@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I am a software engineer by trade, so biases' being what they are. But what I was more trying to demonstrate is that it is provable. Not that making the proof is easy.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's because it needs a semicolon:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo; buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Also it isn't a very good sentence because you've said the same thing twice.

It should read:

Buffalo buffalo buffalo; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Translation:

"Buffalo" is a place, a noun (more or less meaning bison), and a verb (to harass or bully). So what it means is:

Bison bully bison; Buffalo bison bully Buffalo bison.

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I don't see how semicolons work in this sentence.

Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:

Buffalo-buffalo (who) Buffalo-buffalo (do) buffalo (in return also) buffalo (the other) Buffalo-buffalo.

A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts...

  • Buffalo buffalo → other nouns qualified by adjectives
    • Foreign cars
    • Austin techbros
    • big money
  • buffalo (verb) → other verbs
    • covet
    • cost

... would be:

Foreign cars Austin techbros covet cost big money.

(edit: I couldn't quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but "big" is still the same role, an adjective.)

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

That works too! It's basically nonsense, but since they are valid adjectives and nouns and verbs you can construct almost any structure of sentence with them.

[–] G_M0N3Y_2503@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hmmm, I just copied from Wikipedia as my primary source. That was the faux pas that was cool before AI.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

I happen to think wikipedia is still cool :)