[Year 12 SofDev] A Friday Pondering

[Mark]

It indeed may already be here. Soon, asking kids to code a bubble sort will
seem as ridiculously pointless as getting them to convert binary to
hexadecimal...

>From - http://www.wired.com/2016/05/the-end-of-code/

Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs

"whether you realize it or not, machine learning powers large swaths of our
online activity. Facebook uses it to determine which stories show up in
your News Feed, and Google Photos uses it to identify faces. Machine
learning runs Microsoft’s Skype Translator, which converts speech to
different languages in real time. Self-driving cars use machine learning to
avoid accidents. Even Google’s search engine—for so many years a towering
edifice of human-written rules—has begun to rely on these deep neural
networks. In February the company replaced its longtime head of search with
machine-learning expert John Giannandrea, and it has initiated a major
program to retrain its engineers in these new techniques. “By building
learning systems,” Giannandrea told reporters this fall, “we don’t have to
write these rules anymore.”

Mark

On 17 May 2016 at 11:39, Ben Hines <b.hines at ccg.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> The way the world moves so fast, that could be the outcome in 2026 Mark!
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> *Sent:* Friday, 13 May 2016 3:32 PM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
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> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] A Friday Pondering
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> I was just browsing
> http://www.wired.com/2016/05/google-open-sourced-syntaxnet-ai-natural-language,
> and its musings about deep neural networks, natural language processing and
> artificial intelligence.
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> It got me to wondering what SD U3O1 in *2066* might look like...
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> "At the end of this outcome students should be able to instruct an
> autocompiler to write code that can convert a man's grumpy silence into an
> articulate statement of his unspoken grievance. Bonus points for getting it
> to work with a woman."
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> Mark Kelly
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> mark at vceit.com
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> http://vceit.com
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