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Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path (vulcanpost.com)

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Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path::Don't learn to code advises Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Thanks to AI everybody will soon become a capable programmer simply using human language.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It might not make him wrong, but he also happens to be wrong.

You can't compare AI art or literature to AI software, because the former are allowed to be vague or interpretive while the latter has to be precise and formally correct. AI can't even reliably do art yet, it frequently requires several attempts or considerable support to get something which looks right, but in software "close" frequently isn't useful at all. In fact, it can easily be close enough to look right at first glance while actually being catastopically wrong once you try to use it for real (see: every bug in any released piece of software ever)

Even when AI gets good enough to reliably produce what it's asked for first time & every time (which is a long way away for quite a while yet), a sufficiently precise description of what you want is exactly what programmers spend their lives writing. Code is a description of a program which another program (such as a compiler) can convert into instructions for the computer. If someone comes up with a very clever program which can fill in the gaps by using AI to interpret what it's been given, then what they've created is just a new kind of programming language for a new kind of compiler

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

I don't disagree with your point. I think that is where we are heading. How we interact with computers will change. We're already moving away from keyboard typing and clicks, to gestures and voice or image recognition.

We likely won't even call it coding. Hey Google, I've downloaded all the episodes for the current season of Pimp My PC, can you rename the files by my naming convention and drop them into jellyfin. The AI will know to write a python script to do so. I expect it to be invisible to the user.

So, yes, it is just a different instruction set. But that's all computers are. Data in, data out.