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I'm really worried about the implications of this technology for programming, art, and literacy in general. The skills required to be a good programmer or artis
by __loam 3y ago
I'm really worried about the implications of this technology for programming, art, and literacy in general. The skills required to be a good programmer or artist are not what's being sampled by these models, merely the output. There's a real danger here of losing these skills if they can no longer be developed professionally, and that even means no more human training data for newer and better models to be trained on. We'd be stuck with whatever trash current models are putting out.
- cjbgkagh 3y agoThe competency pipeline issue predates the threat of AI, I do agree that AI will make it much worse as it’s hard to see a payoff on investment into skills of AI is going to replace you anyway. I feel like a wise old sage knowing things that new generations will never learn and may even be lost to humanity.
- netsharc 3y agoAs a programmer, I hope programming remains "sacred", but I can see the flip side: It's a specific way of making a machine do what you want, repeatedly. I can imagine the AI-fuelled world just entering the machine's capabilities/parameters, and asking an LLM in human language to generate code for it. Sure it might not do it in the most elegant or efficient way, but many programmers also use npm.
- pg_1234 3y agoIn this AI-fuelled world where everything is run by 2nd rate AI-generated code, talented programmers will be able to hack the whole world. Forget working for anyone, just make the machines do what you want.