The Next AI Frontier – Software That Writes Software - Liwaiwai

Depending on your opinion, Artificial Intelligence is either a threat or the next big thing. Even though its deep learning capabilities are being applied to help solve large problems, like the treatment and prevention of human and genetic disorders, or small problems, like what movie to stream tonight, AI in many of its forms (such as machine learning, deep learning and cognitive computing) is still in its infancy in terms of being adopted to generate software code. AI is evolving from the stuff of science fiction, research, and limited industry implementations, to adoption across a multitude of fields, including retail, banking, telecoms, insurance, healthcare, and government. However, for the one field ripe for AI adoption – the software industry – progress is curiously slow. Consider this: why isn't an industry, which is built on esoteric symbols, machine syntax, and repetitive loops and functions, all-in on automating code?