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		xorcist on Feb 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode You don't think it's impressive, yet you surmise that a computer program could compete at a level of the top 1% of all humans in five years? That's wildly overstating the promise of this technology, and I'd be very surprised if the authors of this wouldn't agree.

bricemo on Feb 2, 2022 [–]

Agree. If an AI could code within the top 1%, every single person whose career touches code would have their lives completely upended. If that’s only 5 years out…ooof.

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