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To: Cronos

ChatGpt, as it improves, will lessen the need for programmers and engineers. If I can just tell AI what I need and it do it, why do I need a programmer or an engineer to fix things?


11 posted on 01/31/2023 9:30:31 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Jonty30
> ChatGpt, as it improves, will lessen the need for programmers and engineers. If I can just tell AI what I need and it do it, why do I need a programmer or an engineer to fix things?

I started writing a much longer, detailed reply, but instead here is the Readers' Digest version.

AI will be very good at existing repetitive tasks, and expanding on existing techniques. However it cannot generate a new design to address a new requirement.

You don't get a programmer or engineer to "fix" something -- you get a technician, and perhaps some day you can get an AI to replace the technician.

But to design something, you will always need a programmer or engineer. Take my word for that (programmer and engineer since 1970 and still at it). And the need for new designs is always increasing.

18 posted on 01/31/2023 9:54:00 PM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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