manOnPavementWaving t1_isqd6kk wrote on October 17, 2022 at 10:32 PM

Reply to comment by NoRip7374 in Talked to people minimizing/negating potential AI impact in their field? eg: artists, coders... by kmtrp

Not my point, the point was if you've genuinely automated software creation, you've almost immediately automated everything else

NoRip7374 t1_isrrbc6 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 5:43 AM

Software is low hanging fruit because of excellent training data and recent language models progression (namely transformers). It have immens impact and good earning potential. Other areas don't have even close enough of freely available data (open versionig systems). And it looks like training ML models to code is not so hard. Coding will be solved maybe decade before anything else (doctors, laywers, accountants, more messy things without good training data). And there will be no UI in sight, what will we(coders) do then?

visarga t1_it16573 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 4:32 AM

Let your imagination run wild, what will we do when we become more productive - go home or build things we can't even imagine yet? If we still want more than what is possible today, then how can we afford to send people home? So many grand challenges are far from being solved - global warming, space colonisation, poverty, AI implementations, public education ... we still need people for a while.

NoRip7374 t1_it1x5at wrote on October 20, 2022 at 10:36 AM

Hmm, you are making good points i would say. On the other hand when you have radical shift in short amount of time, like we can expect with language models that can code, will industries accommodate in same short amount of time? I don't know the answer.