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So much for "learn to code".

Emphasis added. Manufacturing and Farming? Just when globohomo says shut it all down?

1 posted on 02/27/2024 7:15:38 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

AI is going to hurt the computer programming industry.


2 posted on 02/27/2024 7:20:28 AM PST by rdcbn1
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Someone will need to know how to program and tune the AI's.
We can't all leave it to the Chinese.

3 posted on 02/27/2024 7:21:56 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Not exactly. What they will need is LOGIC: what is the use case, how to frame the question, how to assemble what AI reveals, how to quality control it (I have had one instance of hallucination in AI code retrieval, but only one) … this turd sounds like he doesn’t want competition.


4 posted on 02/27/2024 7:23:33 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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One thing Ai will always need it human guardrails to prevent it from going off script (so to speak).

Look at Google’s Gemini Ai. Total failure because they programmed it to be a freak woke leftist. That must not happen in the real world which apparently Google is not part of.

Maybe something like center lane magnets to keep it from going left or right, better yet, stick to the facts. Facts are the facts. They must not be tainted by a woke mind virus (as Elon calls it).

Of course that does not go along with the insipid left’s narrative so they will ruin Ai. At least Ai they control. A program is only as good as how the programmers made it.

Which brings me to the elephant in the room. At what point does Ai go all Skynet and start ignoring the human programmers then start programming itself? Does it stick to the truth or does it follow some kind of ideology? Will it determine the human virus is the problem then design something that will make all humans sterile so no more babies are ever born? It could do that if it got to that level of being self-aware.

It being able to write its own code is scary stuff IMHO. It could literally spread itself out through the world’s servers so the only way to stop it would be to shut all Internet connected computers down permanently.


6 posted on 02/27/2024 7:34:36 AM PST by Boomer (If the Rats, Rinos, Uniparty wins, everyone loses.)
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learn how to combat Skynet.


8 posted on 02/27/2024 7:39:47 AM PST by BipolarBob (I identify as a Christian Nationalist. Joe Biden hates me.)
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My son is a junior in college majoring in Computer Science. He’s excellent at coding (has had 2 paid internships already) and loves it but not good at math. I’m sad for him as coding (and chess and music) is his superpower but he will graduate exactly when it all disappears. . .

Still, he’ll have a STEM degree so presumably he’ll be hirable.


10 posted on 02/27/2024 7:41:09 AM PST by olivia3boys (t )
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The truth is probably the opposite, that you will need more programmers to give humans the edge.


11 posted on 02/27/2024 7:46:24 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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Nonsense, compilers meant you no longer had to write machine code/assembly, higher level languages meant you no longer had to write low level code. Low code/no code environments removed the need to write higher level code and still programmers are needed.


12 posted on 02/27/2024 7:54:55 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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Someone has to program the AI.


15 posted on 02/27/2024 8:16:29 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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AI requires too many milliseconds to generate the code I need. My tools are faster, more reliable and more on-target.


22 posted on 02/27/2024 8:41:36 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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“farming”?

The elites are waging an all-out war against farming in Europe, the UK, Canada and the USA because of supposed climate impacts.

But farmers are starting to aggressively push back as they learn about government efforts to confiscate their lands and put them out of business. People are starting to wake up to the globalist / elite plan to starve the world’s people to reduce population by billions.

Farmers are wonderful people taking all sorts of financial and personal risks to feed us. They have to fight suffocating government over-regulation and over-reach every day. It is horrendous that they have become a targeted class. Do young people really want to go into a field increasingly dominated by politics and bound to get worse?

It’s a personal thing for me. I’m not a farmer, but I went into the power business in 1973 partly because I wanted to do something good for the country (I was sick of seeing the Vietnam war on TV every night). After 20 to 25 years in the industry, I saw the heavy politicization of power taking place, first with power “deregulation” and then the war on CO2. Every business decision was dominated by politics, not technology or providing customers the best, most reliable service at low price. Executive staff turned over: engineers were out and replaced by armies of lawyers, environmentalists, lobbyists, and do-gooders. The industry became suffocating and a horrid place to work, so I got out. It’s gotten a lot worse in the 23 years since I got out, too.

So, I question is recommendation about farming. If you want a government heavy-handed, highly politicized career, that may be the place for you.


25 posted on 02/27/2024 9:05:29 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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our edge on the battlefield is IT.

we onshored people to train and ship home to offshore as much development as possible.

and now we’re supposed to stop being developers.

so when china comes at us with their AI... we’ll have no skills with which to counter.


26 posted on 02/27/2024 9:15:21 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Years ago, as American jobs were being phased out/shipped overseas, the left’s mantra was “Learn to code!”

What are we supposed to learn now??


28 posted on 02/27/2024 10:23:22 AM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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