MpVpRb

MpVpRb t1_j7vj4dk wrote

>We should definitely start slowing down

Strongly disagree

Progress is accelerating and it's a good thing. Fortunately, the developers have placed a lot of importance on safety and accuracy. I predict that the outcome will be good overall, but there will be problems along the way

I think that a lot of the fear comes from years of dystopian sci-fi stories like the Terminator

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MpVpRb t1_j6lb2lk wrote

This may be a fad for a while as studios try to cut budgets, but I don't see it long term

Instead, I see small groups of creative people using tech to make great stories without stars, big budgets or studios. The "movie star" will turn out to be a short lived phenomenon and we will return to zillions of storytellers armed with amazing tech

It's already close to that in music. There are thousands of creative musicians with home studios making great music without record companies

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MpVpRb t1_j6ezb89 wrote

AI will give us more powerful tools to manage software complexity, find bugs, identify edge cases and find unintended dependencies. It will also result in the creation of new programming languages. And no, clueless people will not be able to type in a poorly thought out text prompt and get great software. Design of complex systems is still complex and difficult

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MpVpRb t1_j69iiuw wrote

Once true news is defined accurately, a chatbot should easily be able to distinguish fake news

Of course, it won't matter. We currently have human experts, presenting strong evidence, but the believers believe what they want to believe. Kinda like religion

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MpVpRb t1_j61d3w0 wrote

No

The tools will evolve and engineers of the future will figure out ways to use them.

This silly hype reminds me of the age-old attempt by managers to replace programming languages with plain English. They've been trying since the 60s. COBOL is a very verbose programming language that was intended to allow managers to write code. It didn't work. COBOL programs are just as hard to write as any software

Changing the programming language doesn't change the complexity of the problem or the complexity of the solution. Hopefully, the new tools will help us understand and manage the complexity

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MpVpRb t1_j2xo6vj wrote

I love recommendation robots when they work in my interest. I was easily able to train the Spotify robot to suggest new music for me with a 100% success rate. Youtube works a bit worse, it suggest stuff I want to see about 50% of the time and I haven't found the magic way to train it to be better. FB is the worst, sending me loads of crap despite my efforts to train it

Recommendation robots would be better if they were more easily and reliably trained by the users

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