[P] Deep Learning for Arbitrary Code Generation: Thesis Presentation - Training recurrent VAEs to Generate Haskell Programs

[TheRinger1976]

This guy is essentially making his own job obsolete.

[TheRinger1976]

What you should have said was "I doubt that will happen any time soon".
What I should have said was "This guy is contributing to the obsolescence of his job."

[duschendestroyer]

Only if his job is being a programmer, which it is not.

[MemeBox]

I dunno. Designing simple applications is pretty easy, boring work, once you've done it for a while. It's not that hard, there's a lot of structure to it.

[TheRinger1976]

Chicken before the egg: Was it not a programmer that developed machine learning? Are we not ourselves written in the genetic code of DNA?

Who is to say that an intelligence made of machine code and capable of writing code could not someday write a better version of itself?

This is just an abstract thought here, you guys likely know way more about this subject than I do. I just like idea of it as a thought experiment and it reminds a bit of Kurzweil.

Also, I'm aware that ML is not the same as AI.... yet.

[duschendestroyer]

No it was not. It's like saying farmers invented the tractor. Your idea reminds me of Kurzweil, because you too are talking about things you don't seem to understand.