▲ 67 ▼ IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net to c/programming@programming.dev 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) That's assuming they're using one of the generic models like ChatGPT and not something custom they've created specifically to do this. Edit: they are in fact using their own as per the article permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] andscape@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm aware they're not using a generic model, but that's not much better. Current custom-made models still fuck up significantly more than humans, and in less predictable ways. Even if their custom model is slightly incorrect 1% of the time, that's still a major problem in critical systems like those. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Which models are those? permalink fedilink source parent [+] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I mostly use A.I. to translate. ChatGPT gets that done it gets it done pretty good, especially when you say “translate this mandarin text into English. I don’t care if it is somewhat inaccurate, just do it as best as you can.“ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andscape@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm aware they're not using a generic model, but that's not much better. Current custom-made models still fuck up significantly more than humans, and in less predictable ways. Even if their custom model is slightly incorrect 1% of the time, that's still a major problem in critical systems like those. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Which models are those? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago Which models are those? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I mostly use A.I. to translate. ChatGPT gets that done it gets it done pretty good, especially when you say “translate this mandarin text into English. I don’t care if it is somewhat inaccurate, just do it as best as you can.“ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I mostly use A.I. to translate. ChatGPT gets that done it gets it done pretty good, especially when you say “translate this mandarin text into English. I don’t care if it is somewhat inaccurate, just do it as best as you can.“ permalink fedilink source parent