With the current rate of technological advancement, especially in Artificial Intelligence, I can’t help but imagine what the future world will be like for upcoming generations.
In my creative imagination, these are some events I predict:
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Teaching programming languages will become rare. Few, if any, new programming languages will be created, as the need for them will decrease.
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Open source contributions and sponsorships will decrease significantly, and the APIs and libraries in use may start to charge for each request to sustain the projects.
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After years of AI-generated code, written by people with little real programming experience and no use of Stack Overflow or Reddit for solving edge cases, language models may begin communicating directly with systems in assembly language. There will be no need for intermediate programming languages or frameworks if AI can instruct the computer system directly, and no experienced programmer will be there to thoroughly review the output for mistakes.
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There will be a future where AI systems are no longer supervised. They will be blindly trusted and valued more than human opinions.
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AI will become so advanced across all fields that people will struggle to compete technically and skill-wise. As a result, there may be an option to implant personalized AI systems into human brains so individuals can contribute and control things using only their thoughts, expressing not just their own ideas, but also what the AI suggests, in both writing and speech.
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Running data servers and managing IT infrastructure will be in high demand to keep these systems running and “alive.”
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As many people lose their jobs, the economic situation will become challenging. Unable to afford luxury items, people will turn to greater self-sustainability in food, shelter, and small-scale animal farming.
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Manual hand skills like electric wiring, plumbing, and masonry work will be in high demand.
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Children’s curricula will change, and they will be taught the foundations of AI from a very early age. The schools may include virtual classes taught by AI teaching agents, with a curriculum customised for each student based on their aptitude.
These are some of the things I imagined would happen.
What do you think will happen?