”Centaur” Copilots*
The hottest new programming language is English.
–Charles Duhigg, quoting an OpenAI co-founder, The Optimists, New Yorker, 11Dec23
Half-human/ half-A.I. teams
Way back then in late 2022
When primitive ChatGPT
(Generative Pre-Trained
Transformer) is at first
Released to the public
–It’s straight-forward
Human languages
+Supercomputer
Racks of Nvidia
Mega-chips blew
Away all those now
Suddenly replaceable
Just-so-so code programmers.
P.S., here is feedback on above
From a crackerjack computer
Scientist & Silicon Valley
Neighbor: these tools are
Making mediocre I.T.
Workers a lot more
Productive but so
Far do not seem
To be replacing
Them at all…
Time will tell
If trend holds.
*name of Microsoft’s acquired GitHub AI division
Gerard Sarnat
Gerard Sarnat MD’s won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes; nominated for handfuls of 2021/previous Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards; authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. He’s widely published including by academic-related journals Stanford, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Pomona, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, University Chicago; Ulster, Gargoyle, MainStreetRag, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, American Journal Poetry, Vonnegut Journal, 2020 International-Human-Rights-Art-Festival, Poetry Quarterly, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, Brooklyn Review, LA Review, Monterey Poetry Review, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times. Mount Analogue selected KADDISH for distribution nationwide Inauguration Day.