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Your AI pet project is only as smart as its garbage training set

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"Why don't use natural language directly instead of programming?"

Because natural language doesn't map particularly well to computer hardware, is often vague and long winded and there are thousand of different ones. It was tried with cobol so instead of just writing a = b + c you had to write something like ADD A TO B GIVING C. How is that an improvement especially if you don't speak english? And that is just a simple example, good luck trying to write

hash[(j+i) % HASH_LEN] ^= (((byte >> (j % 8)) & 1) << (i % 8));

in any natural language that doesn't take up half a page and be even less intelligable than what it is trying to replace.

Natural language isn't always the best way to describe something, otherwise we wouldn't have pictures.

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