Professor of Innovation at the School of Management Kellogg Robert Wolcott believes that programming languages ??are waiting for the same fate as the ancient Greek - oblivion. In his opinion, artificial intelligence will make the work of programmers unnecessary, writes HiTech with reference to Quartz.

Above the entrance to the Institute of Santa Fe (SFI), Plato's quotation in Ancient Greek is broken out: "A man who does not know geometry, let him not enter here". Alas, today only a handful of people are able to read it. At the end of the 21st century, programming languages ??are waiting for about the same fate. Everyone is encouraged to learn the code and go to the STEM profession. Like, this will allow "to employ workers in a new economy" or that coding is a "new English".

However, technologies are developing in such a way that the code will increasingly be introduced by AI. Something similar happened with the use of a computer. The graphic interface was developed by XEROX PARC in the 1970s, and released in the 1980s, the Apple Macintosh quickly outscored competitors who demanded from users technical knowledge.

The same thing happens with programming. In the 1960s, there were several hundred people able to code on COBOL, but in the 1990s, Ruby appeared, on which thousands of programs can write. Extrapolate this trend further, and see that the computer can one day understand the human language (the "dirty" form of instructions).

Scientists developing algorithms will one day be able to create an AI that will write code better than people. In this respect, the practical STEM professions are a "Trojan horse", and after a while people will again find themselves without work.

My daughters will necessarily learn to program, because it is part of the modern world. But they will also learn geometry so that they can enter that same scientific building.