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AI solves every river crossing puzzle, we can go home now [content warning: botshit] (gemini.google.com)

submitted 1 week ago by diz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I think this summarizes in one conversation what is so fucking irritating about this thing: I am supposed to believe that it wrote that code.

No siree, no RAG, no trickery with training a model to transform the code while maintaining identical expression graph, it just goes from word-salading all over the place on a natural language task, to outputting 100 lines of coherent code.

Although that does suggest a new dunk on computer touchers, of the AI enthusiast kind, you can point at that and say that coding clearly does not require any logical reasoning.

(Also, as usual with AI it is not always that good. sometimes it fucks up the code, too).

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (19 children)

It is funny how, when generating the code, it suddenly appears to have "understood" what the instruction "The dog can not be left unattended" means, while that was clearly not the case for the natural language output.

[–] kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

@HedyL @diz I kinda wonder if this would work better if it just was worded the other way round: "must be supervised always"
If I understand correctly, LLMs have difficulties encoding negative correlations (not, un-, ...)

Edit: or maybe not, seeing it did this transformation already in the introduction and still lets the dog escape on the very first turn

[–] diz@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is not equivalent, though; other solutions to "can not be left unattended" exist; just ask Kristi Noem.

[–] kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

@diz OK, that would have prevented any escape 🙃

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