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by Dudeman112 1140 days ago
>If it can't even do an NGINX config, what use is it for anything else?

Turn it around. I'm sure there are lots of people around who couldn't do it either, even with a ridiculously high amount of time to do it
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mr_mitm 1140 days ago
Yes, but we are discussing the claim that LLMs might exhibit superhuman smartness.
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Aeolos 1140 days ago
They are fallible, but they quite clearly exhibit superhuman smartness when compared to the average human.

As a thought experiment, assume the average human may be able to translate text between two human languages, or write code in two-three programming languages. GPT4 can perform those tasks on a much more diverse set of human _and_ programming languages. Is that not superhuman?

Yes, it makes mistakes. But take a hundred humans off the street and ask them to write an NGINX configuration or translate between Indian and French - how many would be able to do that? How many would be able to do that without any mistakes?

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