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A problem is: How many clarifying questions do we want the computer to ask? How many much judgement do we want the computer to exercise? There are going to be
by afarrell 7y ago
A problem is: How many clarifying questions do we want the computer to ask? How many much judgement do we want the computer to exercise?
There are going to be many tasks for which we don't want any independent judgement to be exercised by the machine. And for those tasks, we're going to still want a highly structured language.
- epicureanideal 7y agoAnd if the computer needs to ask the person a bunch of clarifying questions because they're providing ambiguous instructions, do we really trust that person's judgement about handling the unanticipated edge cases?
- majormajor 7y agoThat's been a large part of my job at times - working with product stakeholders who give a high level requirements overview and then trying to figure out all the edge cases they didn't specify up front, so that my team could properly design and estimate the work to build the features. So: yes, most companies already don't require people designing things to be able to fully spec every edge case in advance, without any dialogue.
- afarrell 7y agoThats different. You're the one designing the system -- Exercising judgement about which mechanical rules to implement.
- aflag 7y agoThe question is: can your job be automated in 50 years? Maybe it can. But the computer has a long way to go. I don't think we have enough evidence to give any estimate of when (if) that will happen.