Google's Gemini AI in QB64

[Pete]

Realistically what big tech is shooting for is an agent model. This could help software programmers to cut production time in half. The struggle is not losing the time saved to excessive debugging or unfamiliarity with the A.I. produced code. Either could occur if the task was too big or if the A,I, was asked to write the program in its entirety; but as an assistant, I could see it driving productivity eventually. I think we BASIC folks have to keep in mind these commercial coders have had these 'helpers' prior to A.I.  through libraries and OOP programming.

Investors are certainly betting big. There has been about a trillion invested in A.I. over the past few years, with only about 30 billion in revenue to show for it. Well, I guess it beats investing in Elon's suck-dumb house in a box project, but I digress. Anyway, just a bit of bad news about the American economy like today, and some of those A.I. investors gpt spooked. NVIDIA dropped almost 10% today.

So what's needed going forward to make these programming agents productive? Well, an ex exec of Google was asked that vrt question this week, and he estimated about 300 billion. Ah, but here's the clincher. He also stated it would take all the hydroelectric potential power that Canada could possibly generate to power the project. Now personally I'd just go with Clippy yelling obscenities into a pinwheel, but good luck finding a big enough stretch of desert to stick him in.

Pete