Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, has a provocative prediction as artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly transforms our world: « There will be no programmers in five years. » Indeed, the futuristic CEO seems to envision a near-future shaped by the capabilities of AI.
Mostaque talked about the current status of the AI industry and his vision in an interview with Peter H. Diamandis for the Moonshots and Mindsets Podcast. And that vision, he said, can only go peer forward as far as five years.
The future doesn’t look too bright for human coders, Mostaque concluded—and there is some evidence to back his argument.
Data from GitHub reveals that « 41% of all code right now is AI generated, » Mostaque remarked. More interestingly, “In three months we overtook Bitcoin and Ethereum (in Github) and developed a popularity (there),” a testament to AI’s growing popularity over cryptocurrency.
Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the world’s most popular open-source image generator. The company’s ambitions, however, include a wide range of projects, spanning multiple sectors, from building models for protein folding, DNA analysis, and chemical reactions to language models and audio-visual data processing.