A decision has been made to exclude any code from the Gramps project that has been written with AI assistance. I accept that this is the project policy at this time. But there ought to be a discussion of where the boundaries lay. For instance, GitHub is gearing up its AI driven tools with tools li…

[image] codefarmer: Is there any specific project, case, or company Gramps is basing the decision on this issue? The Copilot case against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI certainly influenced our decision. I also looked for opinions of open source institutions. I notice that from the Jul 2024 …

[image] KawwaK: It’s not about Gramps features, it’s about using AI to write code. Its not about AI writing code, it is about the possible Copyleft licensing implications when using AIs in development.

Sorry but how can you have features with out writing code and if you do not write code you can have no features it seems to me to be the old chicken and egg scenario. phil

[image] emyoulation: There seem to be leanings toward the CV approach instead of universal expertise LLMs. However, the granularity of the SME training is beyond the scope of current AI trends. And it might be too resource intensive for the near future. There are some coding assistants which …

How about the following use of an AI? Does it violate the “no AI in development” guideline? “As an expert in Python, database design and the Gramps genealogical software, please identify the specific code sections within the Relationships view ( gramps/gramps/plugins/view/relview.py at master · gr…

Good question. It would be helpful to have clarity on this. Since it hasn’t been posted in this thread yet, here’s the wiki for Contribution rules for Gramps which has clear rules about code committed to the repository, although I don’t see a broad statement like “no AI in development” (or I haven’t…

[image] codefarmer: Thinking out loud…what if you asked a Gramps developer the same question? That would probably not be prohibited, so my initial thought is that asking a tool (including an AI-based tool) questions seems reasonable, as long as it doesn’t result in generating code which is then …

[image] emyoulation: One of the difficulties is that AIs tend to anticipate the ultimate objective. So it tends to offer code when asking a code related question. Engineer the prompt and instruct the AI to not reply with any code?

[image] comeng: Also is the AI generated code any better or worse than human generated code? Worse. No doubt about that. And that’s largely because there’s no I in so-called ‘AI’. It’s a language model, which can create code that looks nice, but there’s no real knowledge behind it. Examples: …

Another example, also from ChatGPT: I just asked it to create a program that removes all lines with tag _MASTER from a GEDCOM file, which is quite a simple task. What it wrote was a program that reads all lines from a file, and writes those that do not contain the string ‘_MASTER’. And that’s not …

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