Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #36612

5th-Gen Software Production Proves It's Further Along Than We Thought

Cross-posted to 3 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

https://scitechdaily.com/rise-of-the-machines-deepmind-alphacode-ais-strong-showing-in-programming-competitions/

AlphaCode – a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for
developing computer code developed by DeepMind – can achieve
average human-level performance in solving programming
contests, researchers report.

The development of an AI-assisted coding platform capable
of creating coding programs in response to a high-level
description of the problem the code needs to solve could
significantly impact programmers’ productivity; it could
even change the culture of programming by shifting human
work to formulating problems for the AI to solve.

. . .

   Yikes ! I posted something much like this within the
   past couple of week ! Call it 4th or 5th gen development
   the result is much the same - you don't "program" per-se,
   you simply explain the need to the "AI" and IT puts
   together all the little building blocks to meet the
   requirement. Even yer pointy-haired boss could, with
   a lot of fix-ups, create most any kind of app or system.

   Which kinda means this generation of programmers are
   the LAST generation of programmers. In a few years
   the underlying "AI" will be much better at translating
   worded explainations into code - and the "toolbox" will
   be much larger. Soon the "AI" will be able to improve
   itself without any human intervention. "Lego-Ware". We've
   outsmarted ourselves - kinda like blacksmiths who helped
   design the early automobile parts.

   No, I don't THINK said "AI"s will become sentient - but
   instead something JUST as scary ... facilitators of a
   world where nobody understands how/why anything works.
   You live IN it, but that's about it. Won't just be
   "programs" either - manufacturing tie-ins, automated
   everything. A "magic" world where mere wishing rules
   (to a *point*, a lack of novelty, creativity and
   instructive errors nobody ever really grasps).

   Utter your spells ....

   And hope that giant solar flare never happens .....

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next | Find similar

Thread

5th-Gen Software Production Proves It's Further Along Than We Thought "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-26 23:13 -0500

csiph-web