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't do any actual reasoning. They're doing the same thing that DALL-E etc. 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.Asking why the model doesn'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't know or care, they just know how people react to it.