Re:Software Complexity Is Killing Us
by zaphoyd on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:25PM
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The parent is not saying that replicating human judgement is unnecessary complexity, quite the opposite, that our expectations for software replicating human judgement are making it complicated and as a result of that complexity we have "better" software.
Concrete example: Photo organizing program
Old style simple, non-complicated: Photos exist as files on a single computer that are manually placed into albums by people, manually shared in curated batches by printing or emailing.
New style complicated, replicates human judgement: Photos exist in the cloud shared across devices. AI software takes date, location, face & object detection to create automated albums, reject the photos that people aren't looking, etc.
Concrete example: Photo organizing program
Old style simple, non-complicated: Photos exist as files on a single computer that are manually placed into albums by people, manually shared in curated batches by printing or emailing.
New style complicated, replicates human judgement: Photos exist in the cloud shared across devices. AI software takes date, location, face & object detection to create automated albums, reject the photos that people aren't looking, etc.