Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 04:50:56 10/16/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 12:38:28, Graham Laight wrote: >The fact is, whether or not machines are intelligent, they're steadily doing >more and more things that used to be regarded as intelligent behaviour. > >In less than 25 years from now, any task that would today be regarded as >intelligent will be able (where allowed to) to be done more cost-effectively by >a computer than by a machine. > >Yes - it's that close - and it's drawing in fast. > >AFAIC, that's something to celebrate! But who, or what, told the computer how to do the task? ;) I've worked in the IT industry for 13 years and, every few years, there's been a cry that 'something has turned up' that will design or code software with minimal intervention. Such intimations of the death of the architect or programmer are greatly exaggerated; these 'somethings' have invariably turned out to be nothing. Automatic code generation is fine for a lot of boring and straightforward tasks, such as displaying elements of a GUI; it falls apart when you try to do anything much more complex than that. Alastair
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