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How is that different from say Unreal Engine, where you can already make a top-notch (graphics wise etc.) 3D game without any programming - by using their bluep

How is that different from say Unreal Engine, where you can already make a top-notch (graphics wise etc.) 3D game without any programming - by using their blueprint model? The point it, it still requires someone expressing the desired gameplay mechanics in terms of the blueprints ("lego blocks") -it's not that different from programming, except maybe looks more friendly than code. It's a looong way from tools like that to a state where a CEO can ramble on his vision for some app in 100% natural language into the microphone, and clever AI figures out all the blanks and automatically programs it for him.

bitL 9y ago
Yes, you are getting it ;-) So currently Unreal allows you pretty fast development using some blueprints. Now what is missing is some AI tool that understands a bit of context. Imagine you want to animate some character there. You can stand in front of a webcam and tell UE that the character should move like this, and perform the move. Then you review it, you see you really don't look nice on video, but the basics of movement are there. So you say "do it like this, but more artistic", and your AI will try to figure out what that does mean from some pre-trained "artistic" movements, and you can pick from the results; then you'd like to beautify it as you are out of shape and generally don't look like a model, so AI takes some pre-trained model info and launches a GAN to construct 3D body that looks like a "model" but follows your movements. Treat it as an advanced "pocket knife" that can automate some higher cognitive functions in the sense like "computer is a bicycle for our mind", and current AI allows you to do more complex tasks automatically. This will get better presumably, so each new iteration can do better than before.
- taway_1212 9y ago
  I see your point now. I agree that, thanks to better tooling and libraries (some of those maybe based on AI), there'll be less reinventing the wheel, and so less jobs for non-awesome programmers. I think it has already happened in games, where, due to widespread adoption of engines, there's less need for experienced C++/maths/etc folks (and, thus, less room in the job market left for non-geniuses) and instead we see jobs for lower skill "engine operators" (ex. gameplay programmers in C# for Unity). It has not happened yet in the general/business programming field thanks to: 1. Software and automation being applicable practically everywhere (and also in part thanks to bubble money) - the field is still growing at a mad rate. 2. Business problems being less conducive to algorithms and AI. For example, try coming up with a good AI which can figure out how to handle an edge case in a supply chain app. The AI would essentially need to understand humans.

bitL 9y ago

Yes, you are getting it ;-) So currently Unreal allows you pretty fast development using some blueprints. Now what is missing is some AI tool that understands a bit of context. Imagine you want to animate some character there. You can stand in front of a webcam and tell UE that the character should move like this, and perform the move. Then you review it, you see you really don't look nice on video, but the basics of movement are there. So you say "do it like this, but more artistic", and your AI will try to figure out what that does mean from some pre-trained "artistic" movements, and you can pick from the results; then you'd like to beautify it as you are out of shape and generally don't look like a model, so AI takes some pre-trained model info and launches a GAN to construct 3D body that looks like a "model" but follows your movements. Treat it as an advanced "pocket knife" that can automate some higher cognitive functions in the sense like "computer is a bicycle for our mind", and current AI allows you to do more complex tasks automatically. This will get better presumably, so each new iteration can do better than before.

taway_1212 9y ago
I see your point now. I agree that, thanks to better tooling and libraries (some of those maybe based on AI), there'll be less reinventing the wheel, and so less jobs for non-awesome programmers. I think it has already happened in games, where, due to widespread adoption of engines, there's less need for experienced C++/maths/etc folks (and, thus, less room in the job market left for non-geniuses) and instead we see jobs for lower skill "engine operators" (ex. gameplay programmers in C# for Unity). It has not happened yet in the general/business programming field thanks to: 1. Software and automation being applicable practically everywhere (and also in part thanks to bubble money) - the field is still growing at a mad rate. 2. Business problems being less conducive to algorithms and AI. For example, try coming up with a good AI which can figure out how to handle an edge case in a supply chain app. The AI would essentially need to understand humans.