> Isn't it kind of daft that we humans must go through years of training to learn esoteric languages
I mean, what do you propose, that we skip all the steps in computer science history and just start at the end? Hardly "daft, it's simply the best way we have come up to provide machines with instructions until now. And it's not like people have not tried other paradigms (ex: graphical programming, "low-code", etc.).
Also, compared to programming in assembly or binary, programming in Python or other high-level languages is a huge advance in itself. Python, at the end of the day, is nothing but a bridge between natural language and machine code.
> You specifically mention code, that concept is irrelevant in this world
Current computer systems run on trillions upon trillions of lines of code.
GPT-3 or Copilot don't change that fact, in fact they will continue to pile up lines of code.
They are systems that map natural language to code, by drawing from an infinitely massive corpus of code.
They bring the idea of expressing systems entirely in natural language one step closer, but it's still very far away - almost a pipe dream.
The output of these innovations is still code. So tell me again how code has become irrelevant, or how people who do not understand code at all will be able to leverage these advances?
I mean, what do you propose, that we skip all the steps in computer science history and just start at the end? Hardly "daft, it's simply the best way we have come up to provide machines with instructions until now. And it's not like people have not tried other paradigms (ex: graphical programming, "low-code", etc.).
Also, compared to programming in assembly or binary, programming in Python or other high-level languages is a huge advance in itself. Python, at the end of the day, is nothing but a bridge between natural language and machine code.
> You specifically mention code, that concept is irrelevant in this world
Current computer systems run on trillions upon trillions of lines of code.
GPT-3 or Copilot don't change that fact, in fact they will continue to pile up lines of code.
They are systems that map natural language to code, by drawing from an infinitely massive corpus of code.
They bring the idea of expressing systems entirely in natural language one step closer, but it's still very far away - almost a pipe dream.
The output of these innovations is still code. So tell me again how code has become irrelevant, or how people who do not understand code at all will be able to leverage these advances?