On 2017-09-14 11:20, James Mcphee wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> 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.
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