Comments by "David" (@stoogel) on "What will AI Programming look like in 5 Years?" video.

Not at all. A lot of these people in Silicon Valley have been massively out of touch for a long time, driven by profit to make things that don't really better the world. The attempts to create "ethical" AI are cute, and ChatGPT has people thinking this tech will always be available to the public for free, but it won't.
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I have to wonder what some of these people gleefully telling others they'll be unemployed actually do themselves. I assume they've never worked to improve their own skills in any way, and now AI is the solution that can make us all mediocre (for a fee)
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How far can you really get by throwing more parameters at a generative language model?
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@SomePersonOnYoutube People who aren't built for programming will not be good at generating these kinds of specifications. It will be many decades before a Project Manager can write a non-specific prompt with the business's needs and get anything useful. At that point I doubt anyone will be making a living wage.
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I hate that most people believe the fact that you can is reason enough that you should, and that profit is the biggest driver of technological development. There's no doubt in my mind that humanity will destroy itself.
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People fail to understand that ChatGPT is a preview. It will never be free forever for you to use. OpenAI will go back to exclusively licensing it to Microsoft. It will be many decades before coding is totally unnecessary, but when that happens tech companies will be paying big bucks to smaller and smaller groups of people.
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@emiledin2183 Yep couldn't be more obvious
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@nhanimaah786 And yet it's paid well because there are not enough people who can do it. Most people spamming COPE COPE don't know anything about Machine Learning, btw.
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@JohnnyWednesday The high-level concept of neural networks is that they recognize patterns and strengthen those connections like synapses do. In implementation they excel where computers generally excel- speed. They still require far more data than a human brain does, and they do not have the same capability for learning and adaptation. We can't model a computer system precisely on something we don't even understand fully (the brain). People need to understand AI is not magic.
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AI is made by programmers, and programmers love not only automating their own jobs, but ensuring their own job security. The ineptitude of business sorts helps too. So keep learning and don't be discouraged by losers who gleefully taunt people about losing their jobs. They have never taken the time or effort to cultivate any skills of their own, and even if the bar is one day lowered to "prompt engineer" (not likely for most software disciplines), a real deep understanding of computers will be that much more rare and valuable.
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@hyiping5926 It fails beyond anything that's trivial to implement manually in an hour.
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@shukrantpatil That has always been the argument as to why software will be one of the very last things to be fully automated.
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@TransitionedToAShark This isn't your favorite Marvel capeshit sci-fi buddy.
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@liquidrider Estimating the values of an extremely large number of variables based on a model created by processing lots of data
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@fuckgrave You keep spamming that- chances are you're another layperson who things generative language models are Skynet or something
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@nhanimaah786 $400k/yr Sillicon Valley salaries are ridiculously inflated and are sure to go away, but people outside of there were never making that but are still making a "good salary" at "100-150k".
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Still plenty to do. The days of $400k/yr salaries in Silicon Valley might be over soon, but there will be a living to be made for awhile.
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You understand that by that point almost every industry will be automated right?
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Weed out the boot camp grads who got into it for the money. Also many fields within software will be high paying for at least 50 years.
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It's dystopia for everyone, and society is enthusiastically jumping in head-first. By the time programmers are all replaced, the same will be true in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, finance, agriculture, logistics & delivery, marketing, and many more.
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@kvasir8931 No one has even made that argument, probably ever. The requirements for a "beautiful picture" are nebulous and extremely subjective.
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@Shrouded_reaper Beauty in art could hardly be considered "objective". Midjourney outputs can certainly be considered beautiful, but someone could write a computer program that generates an abstract digital image with some mathematical procedure and people could find that beautiful too. The requirements for generating a beautiful image are not like the requirements for building a complex software system.
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