I spent most of the article thinking how little sense the article made, über confused. AI controlling rockets? AI controlling the Space Shuttle? In 2021? Which Space Shuttle they are referring to? Controlling a rocket being that good? ( I make my own rockets and control it with cheap electronics).
They Write the Right Stuff (2021)
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#12I spent most of the article thinking how little sense the article made, über confused. AI controlling rockets? AI controlling the Space Shuttle? In 2021? Which Space Shuttle they are referring to? Controlling a rocket being that good? ( I make my own rockets and control it with cheap electronics).
Thanks for reading and making it through - despite the confusion :-)
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#13This is still sadly applicable to software dev as well, not just ML and statistics.
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#14Oh no!! I really wanted to know how they develop their AI so reliably :). This is a massive issue today. Hope we develop tools and processes to get us there soon.”
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#15Very cool! It’s interesting to think how we will look back at this time X years in the future. Is AI/ML going through the process of becoming a serious engineering discipline in much the same way software did before?
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#16Very cool! It’s interesting to think how we will look back at this time X years in the future. Is AI/ML going through the process of becoming a serious engineering discipline in much the same way software did before?
Thanks for reading and your comment. I think we can see many parallels but much of it is still to be written as well. The MLOps space is developing very quickly and we will likely see that there will be soon a lot more structure around the tools and approaches we have available today.
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#17Oh no!! I really wanted to know how they develop their AI so reliably :). This is a massive issue today. Hope we develop tools and processes to get us there soon.”
Thanks for reading and your comment! :-)
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#18It seems to be a joke of sorts: It's the original "They Write the Right Stuff"[1] with a find-and-replace job where "software" has been replaced with "AI" - almost everywhere. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050830190246/www.fastcompany.c...
Yes, it's stated in last paragraphs of article. I've commented before I've read until end too, but removed my comment. And it's not joke, it's about where AI is now and where it should be. But you have to read until end.
> And it's not joke
Then it seems like the author completely missed that « they write the right stuff » remains a complete pipe dream throughout software development.
> Looking at the result, it indeed seems like AI is going through what software went through 2-3 decades ago.
That would be because AI is a coat of paint on software, and software has not significantly moved from where it was back then. It anything, it’s gotten worse on everything the essay covered.
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#19This is still sadly applicable to software dev as well, not just ML and statistics.
Thanks for reading and your comment :-)
100% agree. Though especially in the context of mission-critical applications and regulatory constraints, the processes and organizational structures have matured over the years. We are now working on bringing AI to these same levels of maturity as we believe many exciting applications are waiting for us with the potential to have tremendously positive impact on society.
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#20AI is a tool. Software is an ecosystem in which AI is but one of many tools. Comparing one to the other is silly. As it stands, AI isn’t even the tool, it’s a feel-good word. The actual tool is ML.
Now if ML were compared to, say SQL, I could understand. Both derive meaningful results from raw data. Even that may hold little value as in both cases good tools will be let down by poor implementation, ergo bad software, which is what the original article was really about.