expert says AI will replace human coders in 10 years

[Ernie]

Suffolk expert says AI will replace human coders in 10 years

Coder predicts he is teaching the last generation of people who will write computer code themselves.

www.bbc.com

A Suffolk computer expert is predicting that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace human coders in 10 years' time.

Creative Computing Club founder Matthew Applegate said: "I'm teaching the last generation of coders. We are looking at being knocked out by AI very soon."

Mr Applegate started the club in 2012 with the ethos "50% work 50% play".

"AI will creep into everything; pop music, writing... plumbers are safe! Technology is always an interesting ride," he said.

His prediction comes as a House of Lords committee says that we should embrace the positives of AI rather than just focus on the risks.

The Communications and Digital Committee's report looked at large language models (LLMs), which are what power generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

Mr Applegate said: "They trained AI on a thing called GitHub, which is an online repository of all the best examples of code, and some of the worst. So it was able to determine the best practices very early on.

"So we've bypassed a lot of those problems very quickly. We've got probably about ten more years of teaching code."

 

[Hande]

Who will be creating AIs?

 

[Beren]

Damn. It's over.

 

[nicen]

it can make things easier and charge $$ as services - AI is not a tech its a software big tech playing with.

 

[Hayesin]

Plumbers are definitely not safe. An increase in unemployment puts at risk every low entry profession.

 

[Maries]

Humans are always wrong when predicting future. Those who try fail, and those who succeed, succeed by accident. I would be glad if AI will automate things across many industries, including rendering certain jobs obsolete. It's beautiful how something manmade, can learn and develop on its own.

Though I still believe engineering is here to stay, be it with assistance of AI or not. Don't focus on software only, get into mechanical or electrical engineering, create something new.