This month ‘Google I/O’ took place, an event big tech Google. This is a big conference aimed at programmers. The idea of the event is to guide programmers to improve their programs with techniques and best practices.
At the event, the company announced ‘PaLM-2’, a next-generation language model with multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities. This model can create programming codes in several known languages and some very specific ones, solve mathematical problems and calculations with extreme ease, create creative texts such as poems, stories, riddles and even content analysis. All this through an interaction with a chat.
You must be thinking “I’ve heard that somewhere?”. An artificial intelligence that responds in the form of chat complex things and analyzes texts. And you’re right, this is the language model that came to compete with ChatGPT, from the company OpenAI. It is worth mentioning that ChatGPT can also create codes from requests via text, and even suggest corrections or look for errors in codes. However, at first, a little more limited.
What caught my attention is not the emergence of a new model of artificial intelligence. This would happen, Google itself recently announced Bard, which will even use this intelligence model. What caught my attention the most was a tool focused on creating computer programs, that is, robots creating robots.
This phrase already brings us to the name of several films and books on the topic of robots becoming aware, and even creating a new generation of beings.
Despite seeming like science fiction, there is a real concern with the advancement of artificial intelligence, currently without any control. If you are more interested in this subject, I suggest you click here and read my article on the subject, with the title ‘Stop the robots: artificial intelligences need a break’. I delve deeper into the issue that we need to take a break from creating new artificial intelligences.
According to Google, you can ask intelligence “how to do something”, “how to make something more efficient” and “best practice tips in programming”. It is possible to ask to execute a certain command in some programming language, and it will explain the development process step by step until it is finished. He will even be able to monitor performance and suggest improvements to the program.
From what has been presented, in the very near future, people who have no programming knowledge will be able to access the chat of intelligence through the cell phone itself and simply write “I need a program on my cell phone that does this or does that with X color and Y color buttons”, and in a few seconds, this newly created application will be installed on your cell phone way you wanted, without programming a line of code.
But, you must be wondering: how do they come up with a solution that can end programmers’ careers at an event just for programmers? And the answer is simpler than it seems. At the Google conference, this solution is presented as a tool that will make programming work easier, such as helping to find errors in your code or suggesting ways to optimize the time for creating a program.
However, it is undeniable that the creation not only of this intelligence, but also of others that are emerging, opens the discussion about the possibility of many professions ending overnight. I even wrote an article called “No job is safe from Artificial Intelligence”, which you can check out by clicking here. In it, I show examples of intelligences, which are already being used in practice and may soon replace some professions.
But then, will this be the end of programmers?
Not necessarily, because programming is not just writing code. The main thing in creating a program is the idea. Perhaps the profession changes focus, like all other professions that have changed as society evolves. People who have good ideas can end up being great programmers, even if they don’t know how to write a line of code, because they know what to ask intelligence to execute.
Now, the profession of just writing code may have its days numbered. How to compete with an intelligence that knows almost instantly all the codes, from several different programming languages, that can spend hours writing a program, without stopping for a cup of coffee? And let’s face it, nothing better than a machine to understand another machine.
Lilian Primo is CEO and founder of Mobybe Mobilidade Elétrica, VP of Instituto Êxito and VP of IT at Anefac. She talks about technology, innovation, mobility and trends.
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