Re:The future is fewer people writing code?
by cinquemb on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:04PM
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What the author doesn't realize is the enormous amount of processing power, shared culture and empathy that goes into human interaction.
Much of this isn't even useful for getting a task done, but mainly to keep the human in the loop as to how things can proceed… wasteful. I personally can't wait for prevalent brain computer interfaces. I don't think there is a need for computers to "understand" humans as far as it can observe the things we are optimizing for and do it better whatever way…
For me if I could choose between typing into keyboard on the seconds-hours timescale- latency in vs us timescales via other transmission channels, I'd pick the later every time, and twice on Sundays (which i guess is no surprise since I actually worked on such systems lol).
Much of this isn't even useful for getting a task done, but mainly to keep the human in the loop as to how things can proceed… wasteful. I personally can't wait for prevalent brain computer interfaces. I don't think there is a need for computers to "understand" humans as far as it can observe the things we are optimizing for and do it better whatever way…
For me if I could choose between typing into keyboard on the seconds-hours timescale- latency in vs us timescales via other transmission channels, I'd pick the later every time, and twice on Sundays (which i guess is no surprise since I actually worked on such systems lol).