On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 2:11 PM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
> *the code generated by the AI still needs to be understandable* Once AI starts to get to be really smart that's never going to happen, even today nobody knows how a neural network like AlphaZero works or understands the reasoning behind it making a particular move but that doesn't matter because understandable or not AlphaZero can still play chess better than anybody alive, and if humans don't understand how that can be than that's just too bad for them. > *The hard part is understanding the problem your code is supposed to > solve, understanding the tradeoffs between different approaches, and being > able to negotiate with stakeholders about what the best approach is.* You seem to be assuming that the "stakeholders", those that intend to use the code once it is completed, will always be humans, and I think that is an entirely unwarranted assumption. The stakeholders will certainly have brains, but they may be hard and dry and not wet and squishy. *> It'll be a very long time before we're handing that domain off to an AI.* I think you're whistling past the graveyard. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> skg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv27dGfoVR2OvJGLE2rMhE4GGy%2BiVPn48%2BQCadY%3DKdxLeg%40mail.gmail.com.
