The throwing of caution to the wind wild abandon integration into everything and anything of chatGPT is beyond a cause for immense concern. There is a question that as an admin it is important to know being is there any part or component no matter how small that is essentially AI within the core d…

I understand your concerns. :slight_smile: [image] agemo: is there any part or component no matter how small that is essentially AI within the core discourse installation? Currently, all the AI-related features are inside the optional plugin Discourse AI . As for if any AI core features are …

[image] agemo: essentially AI You’re going to have to define this a little more carefully, depending on your specific concern. But I think the general answer is: don’t worry — it’s good old fashioned human-generated code, doing traditional procedural logic.

Yes a good point regarding definitions. I think the OP is clear in broad terms being a case of before & after ChatGPT (+similar) and what are the plans for Discourse, along the lines of at least: using it to write core code using it b integrated it into core If anyone else wants to help define al…

Can you provide me with a few (lets say 10, large) examples of open source projects that have a charter / public document that bans usage of GitHub copilot?

At the extreme what about refactoring tools of an IDE? Extract method not allowed? Keep riding this wave and it is back to punch cards

Just to add, Discourse (and many plugins) use extensive suites of functional tests and linting checks. This massively mitigates code issues (try to deploy in RoR without checks …) and would cover AI genned code or Copilot supported code too. And that’s discounting the fact that Copilot might actua…

[image] Sam Saffron: punch cards Punch cards? Luxury! In my day, we bootstrapped the OS by flipping toggle switches on the front panel. [1] I’m not really this old. But I actually do know people who started this way, on PDP-8 systems… ↩︎

[image] Sam Saffron: At the extreme what about refactoring tools of an IDE? Extract method not allowed? Keep riding this wave and it is back to punch cards So within the frame of “discourse” to keep to the OP because you’re riding that wave and the next, of course it’s expansive issue, but: W…

[image] agemo: AI AI is not a technical term … one person could interpret a heuristic as AI. The way we “score” posts giving weight to likes and reads and views can be considered AI. Akismet can be called “AI”. The list is a mile long. As it stands the industry is “concerned” about AI safety…

Is there any AI at the core of standard Discourse?

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agemo (agemo) May 28, 2023, 7:25am 6

Yea so bot being a coder is why I asked this question so broadly. Now that I am aware of this, I guess then from the spelling and grammar checkers (for e.g. gramarly) to programme aids and assistants like copilot. I guess there is no clean and clear answer is there?

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