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applfanboysbgonyesterday at 9:42 PM1 replyview on HN

What an irritating comment. Identifying bugs in code is, in fact, exactly something a stochastic parrot could do. Vulnerability research is already a massively automated industry, and there's even a very well-established term -- "script kiddies" -- for malicious teenagers who run scripts that automatically find vulnerabilities in existing services without any knowledge of how they work. Having a new form of automation can certainly be a useful tool, but is still in no way an indication of "intelligence" or any deviation from the expected programming of next token prediction guided by statistical probability.


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semiquaveryesterday at 11:02 PM

Thank you very much for acting as a useful foil and proving my point.

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