AI Programming: So Much Uncertainty - The New Stack

Much work, and many tools, are still needed to integrate artificial intelligence into the software engineering workflow, noted Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, speaking at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference in New York last week. Fundamentally, AI software is inherently different from other forms of widely used software, said Norvig, who is also a co-author of perhaps the most popular book of programming instruction for the field, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. "One way of looking at the traditional model of programming is to look at the programmer is a micro-manager, who tells a computer exactly how to do something step by step," he said. With AI, we should look at the programmer more as a teacher, rather than a micro-manager. This will require big changes in how programming is done, and the tools needed to program easily.