Am 05.01.25 um 12:27 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus:
- Lazarus is perceived as a tool from the 90-ies (last century).
Showing that one can integrate an AI can help to counter that
perception.
Excuse me? That's a reason? Lazarus suddenly becomes more attractive
because it serves a dubious hype?
There are certainly better ways to present Lazarus as a modern tool.
Personally, I would not let the AI generate code - every serious
question I asked till now generated rubbish answers on all AIs I tried
> online, but for > generating textual descriptions (aka "docs") of
existing code, it does a
reasonable job.
It will only lead to incorrect documentation, because everything is
happily pressed through the so-called ‘AI’ and then no longer checked.
Don't get me wrong, certain applications of deep learning such as
automated translation are a real step forward. But even there, you have
to keep a close eye on what deepl and similar tools have spit out.
But generating documentation from source code just like that?
I'm very critical of AI as a code generating tool: we're hopefully all
aware that currently an AI cannot "reason".
Therefore I consider AI a serious misnomer.
100% approval
But as a replacement/enhancement of google search or a documentation
tool it can make sense.
Its use as a ‘search engine’ has already been advertised to me several
times. Apart from the fact that I didn't see any speed advantages in the
test, there is also the enormous energy consumption for all the
chatbots. That alone makes me stay far away from it.
You might even try to use it to generate icons. I am horrible at
creating icons, and so I did some experiments, what came out was better
than what I came up with...
And uses existing works by graphic designers who were not asked whether
their icons and other images were used for these tools. If I remember,
it was always a big issue not to take any source code from Delphi to
avoid copyright problems... Then I find this problem-free use of stolen
graphic data quite strange.
But I don't want to start another ‘AI’ discussion here - just this much:
you should think very carefully about how useful these tools really are
and how much damage they cause.
g
Michael
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