eli5 What is the easiest Human language for a computer to convert to machine code?

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Ok, im asking what language do you think would be simplest and most performant for a computer to convert.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

When you say human language, what do you mean?

Do you mean spoken language like English, Spanish or Chinese? Or do you mean programming language, like C/C++, JavaScript or Python?

If you mean the first, there isn’t one it’s all the same. If you mean the second, hands down assembly by miles.

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Typically, computers can’t convert human language into machine code. That’s why developers use programming languages.

However, Large Language Models such as ChatGPT are able to convert human language into code, which can then be converted to machine code when it is compiled. The best results are with english, since LLMs have mostly been trained on english.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Programmig languages and natural language are not the same kind of langauge. Profgramming languages do not have all the grammar rules and constructs that natural language has. You can not just translate one to the other because both have different uses.

Computer language is juts a long list of commands or instructions, you can not have a question in a programmig language, instead you have a command to dona calculation on something and a command to write that result to a storage or output.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Do you mean writing code in actual human language?

If we include constructed languages, probably lojban or some highly regular language meant to be logically unambiguous. But even that is not perfect.

If just natural human languages, likely none fit the bill.

Human languages are ambiguous, even at the human level. And even if they’re not, the way humans conceptualize things do not translate 1-1 to computers. So any human sentence would have maybe 10s-100s of valid interpretations for how a computer behaves, and each may have different behavior but all equally valid interpretations of the human speech.

This is why programming languages exist, to make humans write at a level that can be interpreted unambiguously based on the rules of the language. Although AI can give some effort to turning natural speech into code, the problem of ambiguity and multiple solutions will always exist.

This is one of the main difficulties in writing code too – what your boss/client/you before you write the code says they want and what you do based on that may not line up with expectations even though your code is 100% a valid interpretation of the requested task.

Anonymous 0 Comments

>> Ok, im asking what language do you think would be simplest and most performant for a computer to convert.

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