this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
813 points (91.4% liked)
Programmer Humor
19154 readers
2012 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It was a staple of Asimov's books that while trying to predict decisions of the robot brain, nobody in that world ever understood how they fundamentally worked.
He said that while the first few generations were programmed by humans, everything since that was programmed by the previous generation of programs.
This leads us to Asimov's world in which nobody is even remotely capable of creating programs that violate the assumptions built into the first iteration of these systems - are we at that point now?
No. Programs cannot reprogram themselves in a useful way and are very very far from it.
Eh, I'd say continuous training models are pretty close to this. Adapting to changing conditions and new input is kinda what they're for.
Very far from reprogramming though. The general shape of the NN doesn't change, you won't get a NN made to process images to suddenly process code just by training it.
Then how does polymorphic/self-modifying code work?
It doesn't or do you have serious applications for self-modifying code?
Some use it for causing millions of dollars in damage.
Nope, but we're getting there.