It will take at least until they take a wholly different approach to “AI”. Until they make something that has some concept of what it is saying, you’ll continue to get things much like you get today–a probability-based response that amounts to a series of symbols it thinks are a good reply to the series of symbols you entered. It has no way to validate itself nor even a concept of validation of output, so its validity will always be in question and the complexity of what it can do limited.
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Cocopanda@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m a comp science web designer. Because of my dyslexia. I never could get hired as a real dev. Ai does a bit of the cleaning up I have trouble with and helps me speed up my development. I appreciate it for that. But you still need to know the code for the programs to work. There is still a need for humans. So far. But for how much longer?
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 days ago
How much longer will we need people who understand how things work?
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well I drive a car and I do know how it works, but I don’t need to.
One day the AI will be a powerful tool for making software, not 100% of all software, but enough to make those cheap stuffs like most websites for example, laying off lots of those people doing it today IMO.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 day ago
I agree. But I mean, WordPress and SquareSpace already did that for about 98% of web traffic. It was a big part of the .Com Boom and Bust.
But we keep coming up with new stuff to build web software for, and there’s still plenty of web developer jobs. And there’s still so so many many shit websites.
Today’s AI can only remix, not do the new stuff. Maybe it’ll get good enough to tackle the novel new stuff, someday. I doubt I’ll live to see it, if it happens.
The root of my crankiness is: If we’re about to no longer need developers, I should be seeing widespread websites whose search, cart and checkout actually work correctly every time.
The snake oil salesmen are bragging that the era of carpentry has ended, from on top of a wooden stage that is falling to pieces with each step.
I would say, it can only get better, but it can really go both ways from here.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How much longer until the bots are capable of knowing the code better than the developers.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Too hard to guess until we reach the stage where the bots know anything at all instead of just regurgitating text based on statistics.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 days ago
Knowing it better than many developers, pretty soon. A huge number of us don’t really know much about how computers actually work.
Knowing it better than top developers is a science fiction fantasy singularity daydream.
And even Heinlein’s and Asimov’s post singularity fiction novels acknowledged that there would likely be roles for expert humans.