[sword-devel] GitHub Copilot

[Johan Marais]

David,
I used your query (hope you do not mind), but asked for Afrikaans place names.
It listed two, both wrong, but conceded that the one name does not contain the letter sequence.
Indeed stumped!
Johan

On 24 Apr 2025, at 20:21, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:


I’m not a coder but I completely stumped ChatGPT today with a simple query.

List all place names containing the letter sequence "rfr"

The full detailed conversation is posted in my Facebook profile.

David


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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 19:09, Tobias Klein < contact at tklein.info<mailto:On%20Thu,%20Apr%2024,%202025%20at%2019:09,%20Tobias%20Klein%20<<a%20href=>> wrote:
Hi pinoaffe,

Thanks for your feedback!

Regarding potential legal and ethical issues you mention I think
everyone will have to make their own judgment before using this technology.
The company I am working for has recently decided to deploy GitHub
Copilot for a large population of developers (multiple thousand
licenses) and they deemed it to be OK and I also did.

Regarding the technical issue you mention:

> - LLMs are very good at generating text/code that *looks*
> plausible/correct, but that is not necessarily correct. Therefore, it
> is often more difficult to verify that code generated by an LLM is
> not subtly broken than it is to write similar code yourself. *PLEASE*
> do not underestimate this issue.

Of course the results must always be evaluated by the developer to
ensure correctness.
In my experience, there are sometimes cases were the results generated
by LLMs are not correct. I have seen this both with ChatGPT as well as
GitHub Copilot.
However, in my experience the positive results that I got definitely
outweigh the negative results.

Best regards,
Tobias
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