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Do you all mean to say that nowhere in the near future will it be possible for a business person to speak out loud to their computer, asking it to show him on s

Do you all mean to say that nowhere in the near future will it be possible for a business person to speak out loud to their computer, asking it to show him on screen the latest sales figures regarding the new line of products he released yesterday? "Give me the latest sales figurs for the new XLine line." We coudn't parse that into "exec sales_report '2017-03-23', 'xline-123' thus rendering the data analyst job you used to have obsolete? EDIT: Google will easily solve the problem of speach-to-code, or someone else will if Google's not interested once they "crack" NLP, and they will. But what does it mean to crack NLP? Well, they already have the means to build the perfect model. I love the word2vec idea and I think there can be innovation still, standing on the shoulders of that discovery. What would a perfect model mean? With a perfect model you would be able to spot concepts with unflawed precision and be able to translate those concepts, with unflawed precision, into whatever language you have. It's perfectly doable.

goatlover 10y ago
How is that much of an advance over what we currently do? If Excel isn't rendering data science jobs obsolete, then being able to tell the computer you need some sales figures isn't going to either. To get rid of data science jobs, you would need the computer to be able to translate from business speak to generating code for all the things data scientists actually do, which probably involves something more than Excel. For starters, that would be cleaning and wrangling data into a format that a tool like Excel could be meaningfully used on.
paganel 10y ago
> "Give me the latest sales figurs for the new XLine line." What does "the latest" mean? The latest 24 hours? The last 7 days? The last financial quarter? Next thing you know you'll be asking the user (the business person from your example) to spell out pseudo-code to the machine.

goatlover 10y ago

How is that much of an advance over what we currently do? If Excel isn't rendering data science jobs obsolete, then being able to tell the computer you need some sales figures isn't going to either. To get rid of data science jobs, you would need the computer to be able to translate from business speak to generating code for all the things data scientists actually do, which probably involves something more than Excel. For starters, that would be cleaning and wrangling data into a format that a tool like Excel could be meaningfully used on.

paganel 10y ago

> "Give me the latest sales figurs for the new XLine line." What does "the latest" mean? The latest 24 hours? The last 7 days? The last financial quarter? Next thing you know you'll be asking the user (the business person from your example) to spell out pseudo-code to the machine.