I will get into a better flow going forward, I’ve just had a bit too much going on in my personal life and don’t want to bore anyone with details… but I can see myself posting at least weekly with thoughts & ideas…
Are we ready for the coming future of AI?
We’re at the earliest days of a seismic shift in technology (and power consumption at that) where we have AI that is capable of writing applications in many of the most common languages… well, mostly capable. It will get better with training over time. However, what happens if AI is directed to create a new programming language that is optimized for AI to write in, and human readability is secondary.
To date, logic & syntax of programming languages have been the domain of human engineers. We celebrate the engineers who created the initial Unix OS and C language, but what happens when AI grows sufficiently in reasoning to create a new, optimized language for its usage. Are we ready for a time when AI can write efficient code with fewer vulnerabilities than a human, but it becomes difficult for us to read & validate? Will we have safeguards in place so that a human can’t just deploy code that seems to do what they want, but they cannot verify?
Just a fun thought experiment.
Not long ago, I had to pull the plug on my Google Apps account because they wanted to charge me a bit too much for what to me was just an online presence. I’m looking around at recreating my personal space with thoughts on technology, etc. It’ll be coming in the near future.
I’ve been thinking about the difference between the beginning of the web and the corporatization of it. I’ll be honest, I do appreciate much of what I can do online, but there was a certain amount of openness and naiveté about the digital frontier as we left Gopher for the hyperlinks.