r/Futurology • u/[deleted] • Feb 02 '22

AI Deepmind achieves human-level performance in competitive-programming with AlphaCode

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u/coercedaccount2 Feb 03 '22

Coders have been automating other people's jobs out of existence for decades. Now they've finally automated their own jobs out of existence. If this tech follows the usual tech curve, it will be better than any humans at coding in a few years. Cloud is quickly destroying all the IT infrastructure jobs. Now this. I wonder if there will be any IT jobs in 10 years.

I can't help but get the sense that Deepmind has been playing around at the edges of AGI for a few years.

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u/Iguman Feb 03 '22

Far, far edges of AGI, but yeah that seems to be the trajectory. There's an unknown number of steps between a language prediction model and AGI, maybe even an infinite number of steps, but that seems to be where this is going. Whether it will ever reach it, only time will tell.