I am 21 years old, I am interested in programming, but everywhere they write and talk about some kind of artificial intelligence

Question

They write and say that it will replace almost everything, not yet of course, but in the future the concept of programming will change! I don't understand this, please tell me, is it really true that this machine thought process is superior to human thought? Are these machines really ?better than a human I mean not in speed and memory but in everything! it is clear that machines are faster and more efficient but are human cognitive abilities are inferior to technology in every way??

Answer 1

Ai is a tool not an all ends ... while yes as a tool it has a great capability to assist you and the trillions around the globe.

Yes it has changed some jobs as far as how they conduct business it hasn't really replaced true professionals other than to speed up research findings by use of human information rather than dig deep into documents referring to shepardizing rather local, by county, by state, or nationally, or on the global / international stage. But even shepardized information may or not be accurate and one has to dig deeper into research. Future developers just like on popular forums still research thousands of comments and codes as problem solvers. Consultants research various aspects of their industries while true they may take away information, gut intuitions and experience play a huge part in their guidance. And there are more and more examples, but no the human equation will continue to change and challenge AI as a tool ... not as an experienced professional doing a professional job.

Answer 2

Artificial Intelligence is a threat to every industry. Lawyers, Programmers, all sorts of consultants, and more. The world has faced this type of disruption in the past as well. Currently AI is not capable of truly replacing people. But that day will come. Most people predict that it will not eliminate all jobs, it will transform those jobs.

Instead of writing 10,000 lines of code, you will write prompts and the AI will write the code. This means that your programs can become larger and more capable. Future applications will be built with millions of lines of code instead of thousands. The programmer of today will be guiding the process of AI generating those lines of code. In other words, programmers will evolve to become prompt engineers who specialize in higher level project leadership.

If you are afraid of training up to become a programmer, your fears are valid. But most jobs out there will have the same challenges. Some job duties will become easier, some will be fully replaced.

We have heard similar threats in the past. Computers, robots, outsourced programmers, etc. Those changes have been occurring but there are still plenty of jobs.

Parting words -- You cannot stop AI from changing the future. You can either hide from it or be a part of it. Embrace the technology of the future and you will have a job. Reject the technology of the future and you will be left behind. Your best move forward if you want to be a programmer is to be a programmer who has mastery of using AI. Companies will be looking for people with AI related skills to replace those without them.

Answer 3

To add onto this and further support Brofar's excellent comments ....

Every time there is a new technology people think it will replace everything before it. But what really happens is each technology finds it's place and the other technologies do as well. Text messages never replaced emails. Emails never replaced paper mail. They all fit into their own niche.

Things always change and evolve. But it's never some sudden disruption of everything we know and love.

I work for a major Airline. Our core software was written in the 60's. It has evolved. We've added layers and new interfaces to it. We have integrated AI into components of it. But we are no where near letting AI "take over". It's far too complicated and distributed. Even if AI could do it, we would have trouble trusting it.

Having AI take over all the software development is like getting your hair cut in a vending machine. If that makes sense. :) What happens when it messes up? Who's going to fix it? What damage was done?

Answer 4

Jerry Hobby BroFar Thank you for the explanation