I'm a software engineer and already, much of the heavy lifting is being done by AI-generated, black-box applications. Take Tesla's Autopilot technology for example. It was not programmed by people and the engineers there will be the first to tell you that they don't really know the specifics of how or why the black box made its decisions. What they can tell you is that the results meet expectations. Now I know some nerd is going to start waxing technological (new term... trademarked) about how that's not true; the black-box is programmed by somebody; that's not how it works, etc... But it is how it works. It's the whole reason for black-box architecture. Sure there are things that still need to be interfaced by a person, but all the "thinking" is already done. Soon, even the hands-on stuff will be reduced to a purely babysitting task. It won't take long at all for this to be standard practice.
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I'm a software engineer and already, much of the heavy lifting is being done by AI-generated, black-box applications. Take Tesla's Autopilot technology for example. It was not programmed by people and the engineers there will be the first to tell you that they don't really know the specifics of how or why the black box made its decisions. What they can tell you is that the results meet expectations. Now I know some nerd is going to start waxing technological (new term... trademarked) about how that's not true; the black-box is programmed by somebody; that's not how it works, etc... But it is how it works. It's the whole reason for black-box architecture. Sure there are things that still need to be interfaced by a person, but all the "thinking" is already done. Soon, even the hands-on stuff will be reduced to a purely babysitting task. It won't take long at all for this to be standard practice.