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Will We Someday Write Code Just By Describing It?
submitted 3 years ago by [deleted] from slashdot.org
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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
Can't see how. As the slashdot comments point out, people already do that by hiring humans who translate what they want into code. At a point where you have a computer able to take those explanations and produce what people want instead, uh, I'm pretty sure you'll have a true artificially intelligent mind.
[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
I would disagree. Much like how we used to use human intelligence and encyclopedias to find information but now we use search engines and algorithms, technology like this can be used in specific circumstances. In fact, there are already examples of a machine learning algorithms writing code based on plaintext instructions today! (https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457)
[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Perhaps we have different ideas of what interpreting words and sentences would entail. I feel the best these will do is take specific sets of instructions morphing them into other specific sets of instructions. Not truly as loose as language would really be, just ultimately another kind of syntax that must be constrained as well.
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