“The capacity to translate from one language to another includes, in principle and increasingly in practice, the ability to translate from language to code. A prompt written in English can in principle spur the production of a program that fulfils its requirements. Where browsers detached the user interface from the software application, LLMs are likely to dissolve both categories. This could mark a fundamental shift in both the way people use computers and the business models within which they do so.”
How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history
https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history
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How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history
https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history
via Instapaper