AI: command line -> Gui

    There are some posts that see AI as the thing that will replace everything: programmers, writers, artists, workers, … people in general. I do not think that to be the case. I see the advent of modern machine learning similar to the advent of GUIs. GUIs had mainly two effects:

    1. it enabled new things: Desktop publishing, photo editing, consumption and creation of movies, spreadsheets,
    2. it increased the number of people that were able to use the computer to perform those tasks exponentially
    3. it changed the way professionals worked, but did not eliminate them

    I think AI will be similar: it will enable new applications it will open up the field to new players and increase the levels of beginners. It will not eliminate professionals but it will change the way they work.

    New interactions and new applications are taking shape, and there is a rush to find the ones that are really useful. Still programming languages and programmers will remain, eve if even less users will need to learn or use them.