I understand this reference and I saw the episode "Ship in a Bottle" just the other day.
This is a interesting topic, yes it will happen someday. In fact I think in the future we will have AI's do most of the decision making for us in life - just like in Iain M. Banks "Culture" novels. So not in 10 years but maybe closer to a 1000. I'm thinking of my own experience and with my current employer... no way. Not even close. People under-estimate the amount of good communication skills you need as a developer, especially if you work in an "agile" (Scrum, Kanban etc) environment. It's just as important as the technical skills. You need to interact with human beings in other spheres and interpret what they are saying: UXers, product managers, SEO specialists, marketing, sales people... They are not gonna speak to you in a well-formed language unless they too become AIs. You need a human being with a good well-rounded head on their shoulders to do it well - and it's going to stay that way for a long time. On 22 February 2015 at 16:14, Daniel Llewellyn <diddle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 22 February 2015 at 11:45, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dut...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> What is missing is the AI to read and understand my spreadsheet or >> document like a developer would. >> I.e. Read a document that is not written in source code, and be able >> to understand it as well as if they were reading source code, even in >> the semantics are less strict. > > > and we all know how this ends. namely with some blind engineer asking the > computer to make a holmesian villain capable of beating an android. > > -- > Daniel Llewellyn > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Key fingerprint = EF78 310C C517 9564 9ECA 82F6 68FA E621 17E1 5D16 http://about.me/imranchaudhry -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
