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Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot (www.ft.com)
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Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I wasted an hour this week expaining to CoPilot why it was wrong and dismissing every suggestion it made in a code review. In all of it, it didn't spot a legitimate problem. It's running at a near 100% false positive rate. I absolutely would not accept a code suggestion from it blindly.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think they're capable of learning from their mistakes, the probability engine and underlying model data will remain the same. It might 'learn' briefly while the conversation history remains current, but will forget it all.

I could be wrong. I just recall trying to teach it something a year or two ago and it was unable to learn.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

The last AI that Microsoft made capable of learning turned into a Nazi within hours.