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mechanical_fish on Aug 9, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unemployed = 21st century draft horse?

programmers will never go out of style until we have real AI.

And what will be our name for an AI that programs? Will it not be "programmer"?

knome on Aug 9, 2010 [–]

That's what happened last time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer

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