Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
I am always surprised by the amount of skepticism towards deep learning on HN. When I joined the field around 10 years ago, image classification was considered a grand challenge problem (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1425&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1425&#x2F;</a>). 5 years ago, only singularity enthusiast types were envisioning things like GPT-3 and Copilot in the short term.<p>I think many people are uncomfortable with the idea that their own &quot;intelligent&quot; behavior is not that different from pattern recognition.<p>I do not enjoy running deep learning experiments. Doing resource-hungry empirical work is not why I got into CS. But I still believe it is very powerful.