Keynote: Can Super Coders be a reality?
summary
Alan Turing predicted machines would pass his test 30% of the time by 2000 with 100 MB of memory; the talk argues we barely match that now and blames inconsistent personalities and blind spots. Cited failures include an airline fare bug, hotel pricing anomalies, the NYSE outage that cost $440 million over 3 hours 38 minutes, a password brute force estimate of 72 years, and smartphone margins (iPhone 6s $750 vs iPhone 7 $650, 5s 64GB ~74% profit). Proposes an initiative to fix such practical glitches, teach coding via Scratch/Python/iOS workshops, and prioritize code in motion to close technology disparity by creating super coders.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to super coders
- 1:26Why AI fails Turing test
- 3:14Airlines and hotels glitches
- 5:46Technology disparity explained
- 10:46Impact on innovation and productivity
- 14:43Call to action for super coders
- 16:53Q&A on teaching programming
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