Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

[trent shipley]

A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted your kid to make
money in the future, they should pursue a creative career. He expected
technology jobs to go the way of manufacturing jobs -- automated out of
existence.  The up side is that owners of capital will make MUCH higher
profits, while consumers of IT will save some money.  Also, access to IT
should be more democratic since it will not rely as much on left brain
thinking and scarce training.

Microsoft is hardly alone in trying to make administrators and programmers
obsolete, and the repressive leftist politics or dystopian fear mongering
strike me as burying the lead--especially if you are a technologist whose
job is in the cross-hairs of economic and technical history.

Trent.

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:34 PM Vara La Fey <varalafey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh. Joy. A Cortana that can write its own spyware. Windows Skynet. Upgrade
> today. Or else.
>
> - Vara
> - www.facebook.com/vara.lafey
> On Mar 9, 2017 11:18 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Hmmm. Did my post get blocked?
> __________________
>
> On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started computers were
> supposed to create a shorter work week.  Now look what we have.  Racist
> computers - LOL!!
>
>
>
> On 2017-03-09 15:32, Anon Anon wrote:
>
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3
> On Mar 9, 2017 15:17, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Really? you took this there.
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England
> <plug-discuss at nmecs.com> wrote:
> On 2017-03-09 08:47, Anon Anon wrote:
> How long until they teach this one how to create html filled with
> explitives and hate speech?
> I read this and about died laughing. All I could think of was
> someone designing this software to act like any other liberal
> online. Write basic html filled with explitives while spouting
> hateful intolerant garbage, and it has artifical intelligence, just
> like so many of today's liberals (brainwashed university
> intellectualism).
> --
> Regards,
> Nathan
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> Stephen
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