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To be fair there is stupidity, ignorance and foolishness.
And then those are impacted by other factors like arrogance, elitism, laziness, etc.
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Since I posted th4e message I started reading "How the mind works" by Pinker and it goes into a lot of the reasons why people act the way they do.
Interesting read.
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It was asked recently if the need for software developers would ever go away. After some debate 2 schools of thought emerged. The 1st group thought that artificial intelligence would supplant developers and that project managers and sales & marketing would become the more important fields in software. The 2nd Group (consisting mostly of software developers) couldn't articulate a coherent response - they were laughing too hard.
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Neither group is entirely right but Group 1 is nearest the mark.
My prediction: Within 50 years (probably a bit less) a LARGE percentage of today's software development jobs will be gone. A few "wizards" will remain to mind the AI but the mundane stuff that the vast majority of today's devs do will be gone. That being said - project managers and sales/marketing drones will also be gone. The CEOs will deal directly with the wizards.
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Logically, that would make me a witch.
I can live with that.🧙♀️
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fgs1963 wrote: My prediction: Within 50 years (probably a bit less) a LARGE percentage of today's software development jobs will be gone
Will that be before or after self driving cars actually work?
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Just bury your head a little deeper. I'm sure everything will work out just fine for you. 
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Yep.
Just like flying cars.
And autonomous robots (Asimov not roomba)
And mars colonies.
And faster than light drives
And planetary alignment catastrophes
And year 2000 meltdown
etc...
Even that Stephen Hawking would not live to see 25.
So very, very many predictions about the future and so very, very few that are even close and usually only then by stretching to find a correlation.
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Says a guy on the world wide web (the same web that 5 billion other people will use this year) that barely existed 30 years ago. The same guy that probably has a smart phone that has 5000x more computing power than the fastest super computers of the 1980's in 1/5000th the space. Most 12 year old kids have the same smart phone...
Never mind other AMAZING things our parents never dreamed of as kids: flash drives, SSDs, fiber optics, the human genome project, graphene, WiFi & Bluetooth, Large Hadron Collider, AbioCor artificial hearts, artificial joints, stem cells, gene editing (CRISPR), laser/robotic surgery, GPS, MRIs, facial recognition, cheap drones, 3D printing, etc...
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fgs1963 wrote: Says a guy on the world wide web
One success does not mean that every other prediction is also a success.
Cars did not exist two hundred years ago. But flying cars (the ones and usage actually predicted) do not and never will.
fgs1963 wrote: Never mind other AMAZING things our parents never dreamed of as kids
I gave you a long list of other predictions that do not, and are unlikely to, ever exist.
Betting on one stock which makes one a millionaire does not mean that betting on all will make everyone a millionaire. That is why people do those seminars to teach others how to invest. Because getting paid for those seminars does make one wealthy.
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fgs1963 wrote: Says a guy on the world wide we
Another way to say what I said...
Hindsight does not make one a genius at predicting the future.
fgs1963 wrote: Never mind other AMAZING things our parents never dreamed of as kids
Naming the past does not have anything do with assuring that a future prediction will come to pass. And it definitely does not mean all future predictions will come true.
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Nor do any of your examples assure that AI will fail.
My point is that technology is advancing at an alarming rate and AI is likely to be part of that advancement. If you disagree... that's fine. I won't be alive in the time frames I've mentioned (~50 years) so unless it happens a lot sooner I'll never know if I'm right or wrong.
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Self driving cars will work when they don't have to deal with human drivers on the roads.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Even easier if nothing else moved either. No pedestrians, no pets, no cows, no deer, no blowing trash.
Even no other self driving cars.
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Self-driving cars will last exactly as long as it takes the Great Unwashed to realize that they're buying machines which can choose to kill them based on an algorithm!
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As opposed to driving on roads where other humans can kill them on purpose or by accident. 
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Yes, but you're not choosing to pay the other humans to do it.
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True, but people already die in cars they bought.
Most cars already have things like throttle by wire, cruise control, power steering, power brakes, anti-lock brakes, etc... High end cars are adding automatic collision avoidance, lane centering and automatic parking to manual drive cars. High end pickups will automatically center your tow ball to your trailer hitch. Full self drive is the ultimate goal. It will get here eventually - its just harder than most people think.
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The difference between those things and self-driving cars is this: Imagine your self-driving car is driving down a narrow road lined with cars, and a couple of small children jump out right in front of it. The only way it can stop itself from killing the kids is to crash into a parked car, potentially killing the driver (or passenger, or whatever you choose to call it). Would you buy something which might choose to do that? Could you honestly say you'd trust it not to do that for the sake of a large dog, instead? It's not the same as lane centering.
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...and again - this happens already with human drivers. People have killed themselves and others in car accidents caused by an effort to avoid a squirrel. It happens. A self driving car might actually perform better than the average driver in a panic.
On the other side of the coin, you should consider human faults that routinely cause accidents today that would be avoided with a self driving car.
Drunk drivers.
Driving while using a cell phone.
Medical events (stroke, heart attach, seizure, etc...)
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You're missing the point. Yes: a human driver can do all these things. But you don't go to the human driver store and deliberately PAY MONEY to get one of them to do it!
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Errr... Uber, Lyft, taxi drivers, limo drivers, bus drivers, etc...
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Oh right. Yes: I'd forgotten that those cost $100,000 or whatever a Tesla costs these days.
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Ahhh... I didn't know there was a dollar limit on the topic.
People will pay for convenience. Once the majority of kinks are worked out, self driving cares will be as safe or safer than human driven cars but more convenient for many people.
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Nothing to see here; move along.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
Will Rogers never met me.
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