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A plane flies and is nothing like a bird. Most likely, the APP-E or GAME-E, given a prompt generate an application or game, will not generate C++/JavaScript/Sw

A plane flies and is nothing like a bird. Most likely, the APP-E or GAME-E, given a prompt generate an application or game, will not generate C++/JavaScript/Swift/Kotlin but directly target the pixel space, running in a 60+ FPS loop a single "function" such as `nextFrame(currentState)`. It will probably be here in the next few years: write a prompt such as "2D game like Mario but with butterflies" and receive a 2GB blob which opens a window accepting inputs and changing the pixels accordingly. Or, something more serious, a prompt like "invoicing application following the laws of France, Material Design, store the database in AWS using <token>". APP-E or GAME-E doesn't need to totally replace software development, just be good enough to replace in 99% of use cases. Bugs/tests could probably be solved by some mechanism for injecting localized prompts: given an already generated binary, fine tune it accordingly to a list of other prompts. As for deployment, it's already pretty much solved with the CI/CD solutions galore all around, not sure why you would need generative statistics for it. What DALL-E offers is a glimpse of the next 30 years, and probably 99% of the infrastructure required to run it to its full potential is not here yet. Just as in 1992 (3 years after the HTTP proposal, but 2 years before the launch of Netscape) there were only glimpses of what a connected world would look like.

xwdv 4y ago
If we had such advanced AI we wouldn’t ask it to build programs, we would just tell it to do those computations directly. So instead of asking for an invoicing application, we’d just ask to generate an invoice to whatever parameters we need, and to remember the reusable data for next time.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
  Sure, who knows. Although humans are allegedly bad with 7±2 parameters, hence a nice user interface is still required if humans are to be kept in the loop. My point was that something like APP-E or GAME-E seems very plausible in the near future and it is more likely to render pixels with the underlying logic encoded in an inscrutable sparse matrix, somewhat the consequence of a beefier DALL-E with regard to the data set, the learning modalities, and the attention span, than to write programs to be compiled/interpreted by any current language stack.

xwdv 4y ago

If we had such advanced AI we wouldn’t ask it to build programs, we would just tell it to do those computations directly. So instead of asking for an invoicing application, we’d just ask to generate an invoice to whatever parameters we need, and to remember the reusable data for next time.

ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
Sure, who knows. Although humans are allegedly bad with 7±2 parameters, hence a nice user interface is still required if humans are to be kept in the loop. My point was that something like APP-E or GAME-E seems very plausible in the near future and it is more likely to render pixels with the underlying logic encoded in an inscrutable sparse matrix, somewhat the consequence of a beefier DALL-E with regard to the data set, the learning modalities, and the attention span, than to write programs to be compiled/interpreted by any current language stack.