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by kazinator 1168 days ago
A human isn't trained to program in Python by memorizing impressions of millions of examples correlated to a verbal description, from which he or she regurgitates mash-up that statistically correlates to the prompt, without having any idea what the content means.

Ask it to write the same program in some little known programming language. A human who knows how to code could do that by studying a small amount of reference material.

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"Ask it to write the same program in some little known programming language. A human who knows how to code could do that by studying a small amount of reference material."

That depends on the language, the human, and their state of mind.

GPT-4 can do that.