Comment by timabdulla
1 month ago
Based on the author's company that be founded, I assume he believes this technology is just years away.
I think with a lot of AI folk in San Francisco, this is a tacit assumption when having these sorts of conversations.
Anyone that thinks this is just years away is utterly ignoring human history, nature, and relationship with technology. My own view is that this will never be achieved, and it's not even just about the tech.
Let's imagine for a moment that this is even achieved. Then, there is still complex engineering required in the world: to maintain and continually improve the AI engines and their interfaces. Unless you want to say that, past some point, the AI will be self-improving without any human input whatsoever. Unless the AI can read our minds, I'm not sure it can continue to serve human interests without human input.
But, never mind, we will never get there. At this very moment, tech is capable of so much more, but most sites I visit have bad UI, are bloated downloading and executing massive amounts of JS, riddled with annoying ads that serve no real useful purpose to society, and riddled with bugs. Even as an engineer, I really struggle to find any good no-code tools to create anything truly sophisticated without digging into hard-core code. Heck, they are now talking about adding more HTTP methods to HTML forms.