Key findings
- AI in programming is a tool for programmers, not a replacement, says Sundar Pichai
- AI will support existing programmers in tasks and thus enable more creativity
- AI will also help lower the barriers to entry for programming, making it accessible to more people.
As AI has made huge advances in recent years, it has sparked much discussion about its ability to take over other people's work. Artists and programmers are particularly concerned, as AI seems to be able to perform both tasks at a level where managers are considering replacing real people with artificial intelligence — that is, if they haven't already. Fortunately, the CEO of Google and its owner company Alphabet believes that AI will not replace programmers — but will actually help more people than ever before become programmers.
As Wccftech found out, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave a speech a few days ago on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The speech covered several topics, but Sundar took some time to talk about AI and how likely it is to take over programming jobs:
…the most likely scenario with all of these things is that it's going to help people. It's going to help both existing programmers do their jobs where most of their energy and time goes into, you know, more challenging aspects of the task. Rather than, you know, fixing a bug over and over again or something like that, right.
In fact, he believes that AI will help more people become programmers:
It just lowers the barriers for those who can program, right, how to interact more in a natural language medium. So programming becomes more of a creative tool. I think that's what will enable it and make it accessible to more people.
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You don't have to wait if you want to try programming using the power of AI. There are many tools already developed and released that you can use right away. For example, Nvidia's new Coding LLM can run on your GPU and make you a better programmer.