Re: The end of stackoverflow?

On 5/10/2024 12:16 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:

One often has to trawl through a number of suggested solutions, either because most of them are wrong (or at least wildly apocryphal), irrelevant, or because the same or similar symptoms can have many different underlying causes.
 I have to wonder whether a language model is really up to the task of filtering out the dross, while keeping the important parts.

Patterns (repeated) in answers are reinforced.  So, outliers tend to
not influence the model, as much.
E.g., Carlin (?) did a bit in which he uttered something like, "Here's a
sentence no one has ever said before..."  You, thus, wouldn't expect an
AI to come up with such a sentence in "normal use" because its weights
are so low.