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It reminds me that median reputation on StackOverflow is 1. All AlphaSO would have to do is to register to receive median reputation on SO ;) (kidding aside Al
by d0mine 5y ago
It reminds me that median reputation on StackOverflow is 1.
All AlphaSO would have to do is to register to receive median reputation on SO ;) (kidding aside AlphaCode sounds like magic)
Inventing relational DBs hasn't replaced programmers, we just write custom DB engines less often. Inventing electronic spreadsheets hasn't deprecated programmers, it just means that we don't need programmers for corresponding tasks (where spreadsheets work well).
AI won't replace programmers until it grows to replace the humanity as a whole.
- falcor84 5y ago>AI won't replace programmers until it grows to replace the humanity as a whole. Yes, but after seeing this progress in the former, my time estimate of time remaining until the latter had just significantly shortened.
- d0mine 5y agoGiven close to zero chances of a safe AI, I'm optimistic that AI is a much tougher problem and we are not significantly closer to the solution than e.g., in 60s when computer vision was a summer project. There is a progress in certain domains (such as image recognition) but (outside specialized tasks) gigantic language models look like no more than impressive BS generators.
- qualudeheart 5y agoI don’t even think the “will AI replace human programmers” question is that interesting anymore. My prediction is that a full replacement won’t happen until we achieve general artificial intelligence, and have it treat programming as it would any other problem. Elsewhere ITT I’ve claimed that to fully automate programming you also need a model of the external world that’s on par with a humans. Otherwise you can’t work a job because you don’t know how to do the many other tasks that aren’t coding. You need to understand what the business goals are and how your program solves them.