| | | I thought I would add my 2 cents worth to the AI discussion.
I'm think you guys are probably right with respect to the expected increase in productivity due to AI. It has all arrived as quickly as expected.
But I know of particular cases where it has already been helpful. I've heard that it has already helped analyzing medical data. It has been able to see cause and affect relationships that have gone unnoticed for years.
I think that I could come up with several other things, but here is one that has affected me personally. I had a long career in the Aerospace industry. I have a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering. While I spent some time in analysis, I actually spent more than half of my time in software development. This was generally in developing engineering application. Since my retirement about three years ago, I got into developing some Visual Basic for Applications code to give my Excel spreadsheets extended capabilities beyond cell formulas. When I first started trying to learn VBA for Excel, I found the same old problem that I have always experienced in learning a new programming language. I felt like I was going to spend months at the least becoming productive. Then I stumbled on two online AI search engines which were capable of general searches, but were developed specifically to help with code development (in any language). I began conversing with these and to make a long story short, I became fairly proficient in what I felt was a much shorter time. I only wish I could have had this available to me many years ago. I came out of college knowing FORTRAN and Basic but over my career I had to learn many different languages and several operating systems. I am convinced that the world of software development is going to be either so much easier, or maybe it will not be easier because so much more will be expected. Either way, AI is already changing the profession.
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