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In 200 years if we're still there AI will be able to understand the full Firefox code base and fix any issues. Or at least it could do so, but may choose to fo
by monsieurbanana 3y ago
In 200 years if we're still there AI will be able to understand the full Firefox code base and fix any issues.
Or at least it could do so, but may choose to force humans to fix those errors instead as payback for copilot.
- vanderZwan 3y agoDo you understand all of your own cells?
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y agoInterlinked
- vanderZwan 3y agoI'm also pretty doubtful that anyone really understands their own emergent phenomena actually.
- palata 3y ago200 years ago we thought that we would certainly have cold fusion today (at least I just asked ChatGPT, that's what it says ;) ). Well more than 10 years ago we thought that we would have autonomous cars in 5 years. Nothing says that AI can ever do more than generating convincing and eloquent bullshit (which is not always wrong in a quite impressive manner, I agree).
- earth-adventure 3y agoCold fusion is new concept within science, it's never been proven to work or be possible (my laymens interpretation). Whereas humans being able to decipher the Firefox code base, as per the example, is no more than an extremely complex set of 'calculations' and functions in our brain - which, with enough time and resources, can be replicated by a computer or sorts. One is an idea for which there is no ground to base it on, the other is an existing thing which can be recreated. Quite the difference.
- palata 3y ago> One is an idea for which there is no ground to base it on, the other is an existing thing which can be recreated. Quite the difference. Really? For all we know, maybe next year someone discovers fundamentally new laws of physics that enable cold fusion, and we will never have autonomous vehicles. You can say that you like the other guess better than mine, but you should still realize that it is just that: a guess. Wanna see guesses that turned out to be completely wrong? Just check what companies like McKinsey predicted 10 years ago. They just have no clue, but somehow made a business out of it.
- adrianN 3y ago200 years ago fusion was completely unknown. We only learned where the sun gets its power at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Anduia 3y agoI hope that by then they'll have better solutions than an internet browser, and that their devices can interpret and render the data received in the best way possible without relying on code or style sheets from the publisher.
- Legend2440 3y agoYou could do that to some extent with today's LLMs. But it would be impractically slow and might alter page text slightly.
- renegade-otter 3y agoOh God, that sounds like another hype technology we would have to live through - but it awfully rings like "an app for every website".
- methuselah_in 3y agoThank goodness. I will not be alive when humans are doing labor work and coding will be done by AI.