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I've also recently convinced myself that the 5th Epoch is coordinated attempt by marketing professionals inside of Silicon Valley companies to encourage a gener
by evbogue 3y ago
I've also recently convinced myself that the 5th Epoch is coordinated attempt by marketing professionals inside of Silicon Valley companies to encourage a generation of programmers to not learn anything about computers or how to program them.
In the future the only thing you the engineer will do with a computer is type into a text area, hit the submit button, and be returned variations on strings of text that seem to say something important but upon careful considering do not mean anything at all.
We can only hope the next epoch will bring about some kind of enlightenment that will herald a new era of blog posts that convey information across the Internet.
- passion__desire 3y agoIs it really necessary to learn things in depth when AI can do it for you? e.g. Recent Gemini 1.5 result of learning a language just from grammar book? If AI can do this, can't it be expected to excel at lower-level stuffs trivially which are more deterministic than a human language. After all, we don't learn / teach assembly as our first programming language.
- notpachet 3y ago> can't it be expected to excel at lower-level stuffs trivially which are more deterministic than a human language Our current LLM's excel at nondeterministic problems (style transfer, summarization, etc), not at deterministic ones.
- charleslmunger 3y agoNot as the first language, but as a mandatory part of any respectable CS curriculum. Not unlike a software engineer that doesn't know (and doesn't learn) assembly, writing code with an AI producing output the human doesn't understand means that whole classes of bugs are un-debug-able. I have a little faith that AIs will be as reliable as modern compilers, but who knows what the future holds.