Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality
This is a great review but it still misses what seems like the point to me: these models don&#x27;t do any actual reasoning. They&#x27;re doing the same thing that DALL-E <i>etc.</i> does with images: using a superhuman store of potential outcomes to mimic an outcome that the person entering the prompt would then click a thumbs-up icon on in a training model.<p>Asking why the model doesn&#x27;t explain how the code it generated works is like asking a child who just said their first curse word what it means. The model and child alike don&#x27;t know or care, they just know how people react to it.