You forgot a neutered education system, in response to the 60's counterculture revolt. The US education system produces functional illiterates, who can do a job created and prepared for a wage slave, but cannot discuss anything materially important outside their specialized field without descending into dominance debate, which destroys constructive information exchange, any learning, and any intellectual growth.
It more basic than that, it is what used to be considered common sense. The United States has screwed basic education, effective communications is not even taught - the seed of common sense, and has been producing intellectually crippled wage slaves for that last 40+ years. It's going to require a culture revolution to pull out of this nose civilization-wide dive, and that revolution is not going to happen in the USA.
I have really noticed that over the past year or two. A worrying number of Americans seem to lack even basic knowledge of the world outside America or even have the ability to think seriously about the long term consequences of decisions. That's not saying all Americans are this way - far from it - but it does seem that a critical mass has been reached. Things like Trump are only symptoms of this, and I cannot see any realistic way the situation can be salvaged.
Add to that, few Americans know history beyond the American History (propaganda) they were taught in elementary school and have little to no interest in history at all, and if they do it's battles and war and glory nonsense. Few Americans can even conceive of the concept of their location in history. Far too many 'mericans think the Earth is Biblical's aged to be around 6K years... A critical number of them too, enough to keep abject morons in government offices.
Lots of emotional commenting here. This guy, Panos Ipeirotis, is seriously on to the way university testing and corporate seminar testing will be done in the immediate future, as well as going forward. Complain all you want, this is inevitable. This initial version will improve. In time, more complex and multi-mod voice agents will do the teaching too, entirely individualized as well.
But "in any functioning society" is not our society. Human civilization is marginally functional, wildly spotty in the distribution of comfort, with the majority of humanity receiving significantly less than others.
I've got a long standing disagreement with an AI CEO that believes LLM convergence indicates greater accuracy. How to explain basic cause and effect in these AI use cases is a real challenge. The essential basic understanding of what an LLM is is not there, and that lack of comprehension is a civilization wide issue.
I think the author of the post envisions more code authoring automation, more generated code/test/deployment, exponentially more. To the degree what we have now would be "quaint", as he says.
Your point that most software uses the same browsers, databases, tooling and internal libraries is a weakness, a sameness that can be exploited by current AI, to push that automation capability much further. Hell, why even bother with any of the generated code and infrastructure being "human readable" anymore? (Of course, all kinds of reasons that is bad, but just watch that "innovation" get a marketing push and take off. Which would only mean we'd need viewing software to make whatever was generated readable - as if anyone would read to understand hundreds/millions of generated complex anything.)
LLMs produce human readable output because they learn from human readable input. It's a feature. It allows it to be much less precise than byte code, for example, which wouldn't help at all.
> I sometimes wonder if they are playing a sort of game, how many minutes of "content" can be made while conveying the least amount of information possible.
Exactly my impression. I tell people there is no real news in the United States, only gossip style reporting of information one can do nothing about and has nothing to do with them. If the reporting it political, it's in 4th grade language and a second grade mentality. News in the United States is talking to children.
It’s not even a game. There just isn’t that much news to report on 24/7. And even when an event does happen, the early reports are often wrong. People crave an update when there is no update to give.
We are not given any factual and material information on business activities in the nation, which is what the nation is actually doing. Who (as in companies) are gaining, are losing, and how is this economic conflict manifesting for their consumers and employees? None of that reporting is performed, the population is too shallow minded to even understand the discussion. Where are the local economics news that graduates to county, state and region with actionable numbers and not pointless no-ground reporting like "the stock market has trading volume of x trillions" <- useless information.
We get sports and entertainment news, which is not news, not really, not at all.
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