From theregister.com
IN BRIEF AI probably won’t replace software engineers, but will dramatically change the way they work in the future especially if they can instruct machines using natural language to generate code.
Several organizations – from OpenAI and Microsoft to Amazon and research labs like DeepMind – have trained neural networks to learn how to code. A recent survey of more than 2,000 developers by GitHub found that the vast majority of respondents found GitHub’s Copilot helped increase their productivity since the AI tool can act like a super-autocomplete, helping devs write boilerplate code for programs more quickly.
But will programmers’ jobs be taken by machines in the future? “I don’t believe AI is anywhere near replacing human developers,” Vasi Philomin, Amazon’s vice president for AI services, told IEEE Spectrum.