Artificial Intelligence: AI that Can Write Code

Last year software developers were astonished when word got out that OpenAI's GPT-3 AI-based text generator was able to write code based on natural English text prompts. John Carmack, programmer and game developer, tweeted that "I used to say that AI research seemed to have an odd blind spot towards automation of programming work, and I suspected a subconscious self-preservation bias. The recent, almost accidental, discovery that GPT-3 can sort of write code does generate a slight shiver." A 2013 study from Oxford estimates that 47 percent of all US jobs will be automated by 2030. That number seems a little high and automation growth a little too fast, but a lot can change in a decade -- who knows?