OpenAI and DeepMind systems can now produce meaningful lines of code, but software engineers shouldn’t switch careers quite yet.

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AlphaCode is an AI system that can often compete with humans at solving simple computer-science problems. Google sister company DeepMind, an AI powerhouse based in London, released the tool in February. It has now published its results in Science1, showing that AlphaCode beat about half of humans at code competitions.

Are ChatGPT and AlphaCode going to replace programmers?

<p>I dont think so, but they are a great bot to ask to when the seniors are too busy to help… not only the programmers but also to scholars.</p>


<p>This ‘replace’ narrative is beyond annoying. Why can’t this just be another tool for us to utilize?</p>
