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The future is kinda tricky,  we want technological advances but it will kill the work of causal men. Now the mail man is out of job because of the email... its just an example

Its a good concept, the death of the coder may be quite some way off though. Modularised code is quite tricky in that even the ones that are coded to the highest standards are most often inflexible and when you start combining different modules with diffferent connections and it becomes a larger whole often the unit can behave in unexpected ways. 

Still, it would give testers like me just that bit more to do, so I am happy either way :O)

> We are going to have to rethink a lot of the ways this world functions and decide whether we want a world of massive inequalities or, a world where people can flourish and discover humanness again instead of their part in the corporate machine.

Fascinating, isn't it? AI is a big threat to the job market as we know it for sure, and we might have to rethink the foundation of our societies which is still very capitalistic. Soon we might not have enough jobs left to give everyone sufficient amounts of money to live off. If that happens, maybe money won't be the driving source of our society anymore. Maybe we go back 2000 years and go hunt and do agriculture again. Perhaps we go back to a more individualistic way of living, with smaller and more self-sufficient communities.

I don't know what AI will do for the future, but it's impact can be enormous. We'll see how the human race will deal with it's own creation :).

True, AI and automation will take away tens of million jobs by next few years.... The only field that may remain safe from AI & Robots, is of "Content Creators"... So content creators, take heart. As long as you continue to use creativity,  enthusiasm for what you write, and make those connections to target audience, you will always have work in this Internet world and Steemit will be the platform in future that may provide jobs to millions of Content Creators...

"We" have to decide? More like the owners of the AI need to decide, "we" just have to deal with whatever they choose to apply AI to. Fully conscious AI that can make it's own moral decisions I don't think is that close to being reality - but AI that can be applied by governments to create a Minority Report style reality, that I can see happening pretty quick.

Sure, collectively you are going to run out of jobs. But that is a good thing. A world where everything is run by machines and AI is a good thing.

It means resources could be distributed equally.

And then people can pursue art to progress their wealth. I see a lot of hope in the future.

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One thing that AI will always struggle with IMO, is innovation and creativity.

It is difficult so say when an AI will be capable of outdoing most programmers. It will eventually get there but it is a difficult challenge.

A world with no need to work for a living would be a paradise. It would require that everyone be entitled to the value created by AI's and not just a small group of trillionaires. Some people say that having to go to work is the only thing between most people and total deterioration. I don't believe most people would go and drink themselves to death out a lack of purpose in life. Did the leisure classes of yesteryear do that? No, they didn't. Many of the pioneers of science and philosophy of  past centuries were men of means.

Yeah, AI will be responsible for major layoffs in the close future (in fact it already started in some sectors, like customer support).

I never would have thought programmers would be among the targeted categories to be replaced by AI, although yes, programming languages are just simple constructs for an AI to learn. You presented of course a possibility in which AI merely works as a puzzle solver, it has a multitude of real codeworks and it assembles them together to create a nice puzzle, better than a human programmer and more customizable to fit the end user.

The problem with this evolution is it generally creates more problems which are only addressed post-factum. Never or rarely in advance. So, we will have a work force problem... Who cares? We'll see when we get there.

We, as humans, are more determined to take action on issues which are perceived as real threats *now*. If it's 10 years from now, nobody will move a muscle. 1 year? it will make the agenda of a boring council. Tomorrow? It will be on the headlines of all media.

All AI programs to this point belong to the subcategory of "narrow AI" and thus there will be certain issues that coders will be required for in order to fix as AIs are fundamentally lines of codes themselves and are very limited in their flexibility.

For such a system to work properly, the AI needs to be bug-free. Since most times this is not the case, the AI is vulnerable to producing broken and buggy problems. So some oversight is still necessary and will be necessary.

You could write an additional machine learner to uncover bugs that people can fix, but this remains a very hard problem in the space.

And as you mentioned, we'll still need coders to write new creative programs since AI mechanisms are unable to create "novel" programs even if they have the components to do so. Novel meaning a program that exists outside of its domain of programmability (as limited by its instruction set). 

There also remains the problem of intentionally and semantics. AI aren't able to know what a program's purpose is while coders know this before they write a single line of code. Without knowing this intent, they could produce code that is less flexible than desired by clients of the code. Also with semantics, there could be issues with translating a clients desires into inputs the AI can easily understand. 

Because of this, "good/creative" coders will be safe for a while (I would estimate 20+ years), as many coders will move from raw coding to quality assurance, idea development, and maintenance roles. 

The people who are the most at risk are the non-coding non-creative types. Especially those that undertake menial tasks that require little abstract thought.