Dzmitry Bahdanau Profile picture
Research Scientist & Research Lead at ServiceNow Research Adjunct Prof @ McGill. Member of Mila, Quebec AI Institute. Opinions are my own.
Feb 2, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
I spent 1000s of hours on competitive programming (proof-link: codeforces.com/profile/rizar). This makes me qualified to comment on #AlphaCode by @DeepMind

The result is nice, the benchmark will be useful, some ideas are novel. But human level is still light years away.

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The system ranks behind 54.3% participants. Note that many participants are high-school or college students who are just honing their problem-solving skills. Most people reading this could easily train to outperform #AlphaCode, especially if time pressure is removed...