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But wouldn't you agree that by the same line of reasoning, if you can spec it, you can code it? I mean, the difficulty lies in specifying what you want in such

by kleiba 10y ago

But wouldn't you agree that by the same line of reasoning, if you can spec it, you can code it? I mean, the difficulty lies in specifying what you want in such an unambiguous way that a program that fulfill the specification actually does what you had in mind originally.

rorykoehler 10y ago
Sure. Exactly what I meant. It would just speed up your job.
sharemywin 10y ago
but a lot of things use defaults or common practices which could be collected and used. and if this AI had a chat interface it could prompt for some of the requirements. for a lot of users its not knowing the questions. and the pros and cons of the answers.
cortesoft 10y ago
Yes, and that difficulty has been lowered many times over the years as we create better programming languages, libraries, and tools. It is easier and quicker to unambiguously describe your program in python than it is in assembly. It is easier to write a web server using libraries than by writing the whole thing from scratch. These advanced AIs would just be the next level of this, giving even easier ways to specify to a computer exactly what you want it to do.
pasquinelli 10y ago
I think you're lacking imagination. You're thinking of a software developing ai as a simple compiler. You also seem to think there must be a 1 to 1 relationship between a user's specification and resulting program. But a software developing ai could work very quickly , taking a vague natural language specification and giving many programs to choose from. That set would be narrowed based on a learned correspondence between natural language and completed programs, and narrowed and refined further with more vague natural language specification from the user. If the ai is smart enough the system could be only a bit more complicated to use than a thumbs up/thumbs down on pandora. or we just ditch humans and allow an ai to assess what software we need.

by kleiba 10y ago

rorykoehler 10y ago

Sure. Exactly what I meant. It would just speed up your job.

sharemywin 10y ago

but a lot of things use defaults or common practices which could be collected and used. and if this AI had a chat interface it could prompt for some of the requirements. for a lot of users its not knowing the questions. and the pros and cons of the answers.

cortesoft 10y ago

Yes, and that difficulty has been lowered many times over the years as we create better programming languages, libraries, and tools. It is easier and quicker to unambiguously describe your program in python than it is in assembly. It is easier to write a web server using libraries than by writing the whole thing from scratch. These advanced AIs would just be the next level of this, giving even easier ways to specify to a computer exactly what you want it to do.

pasquinelli 10y ago

I think you're lacking imagination. You're thinking of a software developing ai as a simple compiler. You also seem to think there must be a 1 to 1 relationship between a user's specification and resulting program. But a software developing ai could work very quickly , taking a vague natural language specification and giving many programs to choose from. That set would be narrowed based on a learned correspondence between natural language and completed programs, and narrowed and refined further with more vague natural language specification from the user. If the ai is smart enough the system could be only a bit more complicated to use than a thumbs up/thumbs down on pandora. or we just ditch humans and allow an ai to assess what software we need.