Teemu Roos

About #copilot and other code generation tools:

Someone – I tried searching for the post but unfortunately failed – rightly said we should focus not only on the risks of these tools in #programming #education (cheating etc) but also on the potential positive use cases.

Interesting work by Sami Sarsa, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, and Juho Leinonen at Aalto University and the University of Auckland. (Best paper award at 2022 ACM Conf on Int'l Computing Education Research):

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/get-with-the-program-ai-assisted-coding-is-here-to-stay

Get with the program – AI-assisted coding is here to stay | Aalto University

Aalto’s computing education researchers are putting large language models to the test and the results are true.

Nov 25, 2022 at 1:58pmWeb
Show threadTeemu RoosNov 25, 2022
A direct link to the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501385.3543957
Automatic Generation of Programming Exercises and Code Explanations Using Large Language Models | Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1

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Show threadDocRekdNov 25, 2022
@TeemuRoos
At the moment #ai code gen is merely automating searching the answer for some problem on stack overflow
Show threadTeemu RoosNov 25, 2022
@docRekd Have you tried it?
Show threadDocRekdNov 25, 2022
@TeemuRoos
More like seen other try it.
Show threadTeemu RoosNov 25, 2022
@docRekd Same here. But what I’ve seen strongly suggests that it can generalize in non-trivial ways. I mean, just check out the examples in the video by Aalto people in the first link above, for example.
Show threadDocRekdNov 25, 2022
@TeemuRoos
Just seen the video you posted. Seems like #ai code is still in the "dancing bear" phase
Show threadJim SalmonsNov 28, 2022
Hi @TeemuRoos - WRT positive use cases, I suffered a devastating spinal cord injury in 2020 which abruptly ended my activity as a #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist. I was fortunate to join the #Copilot Technology Preview. It was a game-changer for me. See https://bit.ly/Copilot4DisDev for more. AI code generation has the potential to be a life-changer for #DisabledDevelopers and #DisabledSTEMstudents. Cc: @wunderalbert
GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers – Medium

The journal of a 71 year-old, cancer-surviving, and spinal cord injured Citizen Scientist’s mission to see GitHub Copilot Used as a Life-Changer for Disabled Developers.

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Show threadTeemu RoosNov 28, 2022
@Jim_Salmons @wunderalbert Thanks for sharing this example, Jim!