CIO Insights: The robots are coming

CIO Insights: The robots are coming

Image: We’re in the early days of generative AI, but the advancements are coming thick and fast Recently I visited the Tiptree Jam Museum, home of more spreadable sweetness than even the most wide-eyed child could handle. Middle age has arrived. But while I was (unexpectedly) enjoying the history of preserves, something else was washing around the back of my mind: how many people had been put out of business by technical advancements over the centuries the factory had been in operation....

Published in www.computing.co.uk · by Tom Allen · 3 min read · August 16, 2023
ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time • The Register

ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time • The Register

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough to fool a third of participants. The Purdue team analyzed ChatGPT’s answers to 517 Stack Overflow questions to assess the correctness, consistency, comprehensiveness, and conciseness of ChatGPT’s answers. The US academics also conducted linguistic and sentiment analysis of the answers, and questioned a dozen volunteer participants on the results generated by the model....

Published in www.theregister.com · by Thomas Claburn · 6 min read · August 16, 2023