Not really? It's less about arithmetic and more about inferencing data in higher dimensions than we can understand. Comparing it to traditional computation is a trap, same as treating it like a human mind. They've very different, under the surface.

IMO, if this is a data problem then we should treat it like one. Simple fix - find a legal basis for which licenses are permissive enough to allow for ML training, and train your models on that. The problem here isn't developers crying out in fear of being replaced by robots, it's more that the code that it is reproducing is not licensed for reproduction (and the AI doesn't know that). People who can prove that proprietary code made it into Copilot deserve a settlement. Schlubs like me who upload my dotfiles under BSD don't fall under the same umbrella, at least the way I see it.