AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
No, just no!<p>Because the whole thing is, a dog’s abstract mental capabilities are far below a human — thus why it would be ASTOUNDING that a dog could master even a primitive form of speaking English.<p>On the other hand, here we are brute forcing a solution from analyzing millions of man-years of published English speech, by using a huge array of computing power to precompute various answers and sift them.<p>It is a bit like “solving checkers” and then claiming “wow, a dog could have done this”. It is like making a cheat sheet for a test by analyzing all answers ever given, and then summarizing them in a vector of 102827 dimensions, and claiming that it is the same as coming up with clever and relevant one liners on the spot using the brain of a dog.<p>NO. It’s not nearly as astounding or impressive.