5/10 Case in point: I let it write a program that takes two filenames as arguments. Now, rather than tediously finding and specifying those two filenames, I’d rather want it to look at the directory and pick the two files I obviously mean. But this is something an AI will do, not something you can easily code in a conventional program.

Another case in point: I let it digitize a book, and it’s using Tesseract to do it, and then spends hours finding and correcting all the mistakes that Tesseract made. So clearly it is able to read the original scans just fine. I should have had the AI do the digitizing, rather than Tesseract, and this is what I will do next time.

André Spiegel @drmirror