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by carapace
1431 days ago
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That's right, this is your field isn't it? Cheers! Gosh, the robot car work was incredible, I can't believe I've never heard of it before! - - - - Copilot isn't cutting edge but it's significance is just that it's a mass market tool. It will be interesting to see how well it does, and whether users find it worthwhile overall after a couple of years.
Will it be improved to the point where it starts to compete with its users? I've asked other programmers before, if you could write a program that replaced you would you do it? (One of the reasons I like Schmidhuber is that his goal, since early on, is to "Create an automatic scientist, and then retire.") To me the ultimate effect of programming is to obviate the programmer. |
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I think Copilot can be used very effectively, as long as its capabilities and their limitations are communicated clearly. For instance, I think it can make a great boilerplate generator, as long as users stick to short code snippets.
Well, I don't know about replacing programmers. I think that's Sci-Fi, for the time being, and for a while longer still. What I'm more interested in is creating tools to help programmers do their job. Copilot does that already, btw, I'm not dissing it. I'm just pointing out it doesn't represent a sudden shift in capabilities, to be clear.
>> (One of the reasons I like Schmidhuber is that his goal, since early on, is to "Create an automatic scientist, and then retire.")
I didn't know Schmidhuber had said that. My thesis advisor, Stephen Muggleton, was part of an interdisciplinary team who created a robot scientist that can develop its own theories and then choose, and run, the experiments to prove them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist
Another one of those things that are not well-known, I guess. I wasn't involved with that, btw, but I think recent advances could make for a much more powerful system. I am considering something similar as a research project, post-doc.