• slacktoid@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    We need a comparison against an average coder. Some fucking baseline ffs.

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      7 months ago

      “Self driving cars will make the roads safer. They won’t be drunk or tired or make a mistake.”

      Self driving cars start killing people.

      “Yeah but how do they compare to the average human driver?”

      Goal post moving.

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        7 months ago

        The issue is the powers that be arent comparing chatgpt to a reference manual. Rather another human being.

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      7 months ago

      Why would we compare it against an average coder?

      ChatGPT wants to be a coding aid/reference material. A better baseline would be the top rated answer for the question on stackoverflow or whether the answer exists on the first 3 Google search results.