The democratization of coding to a further billion people through spoken language-based communication with computers is as exciting as it is non-specific. What are we building software to do? Any promising demonstrations or arguments about bringing the incentives of software companies more in line with wider public interest around safety, social equity, environmental concerns, flooding, fires, water scarcity?
Luke, I deeply appreciate this question. That wasn’t a focus I noticed and I didn’t hear a lot of specificity in the talks / sessions I attended at these conferences. I do think it’s an important question; empowering more people to build software and software companies isn’t guaranteed to mean they tackle the most meaningful issues (although I hope many of them do).
Do you have further thoughts or reading suggestions on this? It is something I am curious to dig into deeper (right before your question I actually just signed up to attend a local AI for Good event in the same vein).
The democratization of coding to a further billion people through spoken language-based communication with computers is as exciting as it is non-specific. What are we building software to do? Any promising demonstrations or arguments about bringing the incentives of software companies more in line with wider public interest around safety, social equity, environmental concerns, flooding, fires, water scarcity?
Luke, I deeply appreciate this question. That wasn’t a focus I noticed and I didn’t hear a lot of specificity in the talks / sessions I attended at these conferences. I do think it’s an important question; empowering more people to build software and software companies isn’t guaranteed to mean they tackle the most meaningful issues (although I hope many of them do).
Do you have further thoughts or reading suggestions on this? It is something I am curious to dig into deeper (right before your question I actually just signed up to attend a local AI for Good event in the same vein).