I'm not saying it won't happen eventually. Heck, we have factories that build factories. But it took us a while to get there. Also, I don't think the industrial model works for us. The product coming out of, say, a papermill is pretty static. When I was a kid, papermachine #3 had 3500 people manning it. Paper machine #5 came out when I was in middle school and that required a couple hundred. #6 that came around after I hit college needs half a dozen. That kind of thing is possible and we see if in the employment numbers. But the output of programming is constantly changing. It will take a while to get a system capable of handling those kinds of changes. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2017-09-14 11:20, James Mcphee wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, wrote: >> >>> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-how-code-still-worth >>> -rajat-bhageria >>> which predicts that computers will be self coding and coding skills will >>> be obsolete. >>> >>> I've read other such articles in the recent past. I'm also reading about >>> robots replacing jobs.... >>> >> Ahh, I remember this argument when COBOL came out. The excitement >> never changes. >> > > The fun thing about some of this machine learning stuff is that you can > play with it and see exactly what it's capable of. > https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn , for example. (Warning: Requires > stuff that is probably not in your package manager, installation may be a > bit of a PITA.) As seen in http://crow202.org/misc/char-rnn.html and > http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/ , this particular neural network is good > for comedy, but terrible at being coherent. Even with a relatively simple > problem ("name a paint color"), you wind up with > http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint- > colors-invented-by-neural-network . "Stanky Bean". Sure, let's go with > that. > > As Public Enemy said many years ago, don't believe the hype. Not yet, > anyway. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com