Programming languages were invented precisely because natural languages are too vague and imprecise, and machine language is too difficult.
Exactly.
Everybody looked a bit closer at natural languages knows, they are imprecise, which are the cause for misunderstandings, the source for jokes, and the need for trying to explain things elaborated so they cannot be misunderstood. That's what jurists do - and never will accomplish.
A professor of mine at U once said, 'In infinite time engineers will made themselves disestablished, while for each jurist you need even more jurists, so they grow infinetely in numbers.'
So, how can a machine, which distinguish everything at last into binary cases, shall understand what a human actually wants, if human themselves are not capable to understand each other without misunderstanding, not even a single humen himself is capable to formulate his thoughts into the right word in the first place?
This simply cannot work. Except mindreading is invented. And I doubt this would really avoid misunderstandings, since most humans (ok, that's a guess. It's at least me; I cannot speak for others, while I cannot read minds) already have problems to have crystal thoughts with anything more complex than the most basic body functionality.
But machine language ain't too difficult. In fact it's easy - too easy. The tasks humans want to be done by a machine needed to be stripped down on such a primitive level, that it's hard for the human brain to get this far down. That's the point. So you need to have over and over again and again lots of efforts to realize most rudimentary things on lowest abstraction levels, which makes it highly efficient for anything on some higher abstraction level. HOL could by principle be seen as some kind of "Macrolanguage" for the low level machine codes. C makes this pretty obvious.
Maybe one day the AI is so intelligent that it can reliably apply everything humanity has figured out in relation to natural languages and engineering
As I said: This either needs some unequivocally language. We already possess those: mathematics, all classic programming languages. The point is, those are strenous to use for the most people, hence AI, but this again ain't unequivocally, again.
To make a language unequivocally it must be formal. But formal languages are dull to the human brain and need to be learned. And since not everybody wants to learn and communicate in formal languages, we prefer natural languages. And some things must be said in natural language, like legal stuff, because one cannot presuppose everybody understands a certain formal language.
Dilemma.
Or, as I also said: Mindreading.
but I think we are still far from this day.
I hope this day will never come.
Think it through:
What will happen, when machines are really capable to do any human's job?
Humans are not needed anymore then. So they are replaced by machines. That's why this AI thing is applauded so much, because each and every company thinks, 'Great! With no employees I have no wages to pay anymore, but machine slaves working 24/7 only needing electricity working practically for free for me most win possible ever. Jackpot!
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Think it through!
Will this be a good thing? Will we all then live in Cockayne, lazy doing nothing but eating and enjoying freetime?
No. Economics will tell you, 'This only works, if a few small companies do this. If all companies are doing this, you will not hit the jackpot, you will become bankcrupt. Because if no one is employed anymore, no one earnes money. And if no one earns money, there is no one who can pay for so buy your junk, no matter how low the prices you will make, as long as you don't give it away for free.'
The guys who developed and built that machines want revenue for their investment: money needs to be payed with interest.
So, when money can only be earend by doing payed labor, but if there is no labor for humans to be done anymore, how shall humans pay for it then in a world where nothing is for free and everything must be payed for?
How shall this work?
Do you want to introduce communism?
"Hey, OK thanks Sam, Sundar, Elon, ... Good job! Now we take over, and confiscate your nice little machines you built us. Now everything is for free for everybody, which btw. means all money is devaluated. We don't need it anymore. Thanks again, guys!"
Will this work?
Can this work?
I don't think so.
What I see is a giant collaps, because in our greed we overdid things, while already having too much couldn't get enough at all.
Look into the public, the streets: At least half the people I see are way too fat. Their greatest fear is, there may be not enough to eat for them. The slim ones carry their overweight in other forms: in their wardrobes, more shoes they could wear in the rest of their life, the giant cars they drive, all the other useless gadget junk they buy constantly (Black Friday sale comes soon again
must buy even more junk, just because it's so cheap!)
Love doesn't make blind. Greed does.
We will fall back in somekind where we've been in the middleages, and stay there.
We could had been satisfied with what we had in the 1980s. Wasn't actually that bad, and even better than all what humankind had in all hundred thousands of years before. But it wasn't enough. So overdoing things.
Game Over.
Finally a bedtime story
The Fisherman and His Wife
