Most of my experience with AI is using it to accelerate coding by asking it for an implementation of a straightforward, easily described algorithm, simply to save the time of coding it myself.
I then waste a bunch of time pointing out to it that not only does its code fail to meet my specifications in obvious, fundamental ways, -- which it clearly "understood" given that it accurately paraphrased those requirements back to me -- it fails to match its own description of what it was giving me. It apologizes, agrees with me, gives me another implementation that's just as wrong, sometimes in exactly the same way.
Rinse, repeat a few times. Then I give up and write it myself anyway.
@JamesGleick It is all about probability and frequency distributions of letters in the English language and whether you find them useful for anything. Consider word games that have you guess letters. It makes great sense to pick the highest frequency letters first, then once you get one or two you can significantly constrain further choices. There are several ways to compute frequency distributions, but tables for letters and letter combinations are readily available at search engines.
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