 Hello, and welcome. This is a podcast from filmsbychris.com. That's Chris the K. I am Chris also with the K and thank you for joining me today Last time I talked about AI and some thoughts, you know, I had on AI in the future and you know good and bad but completely Unknown But today let's talk a little bit about more in the aspect of free and open-source software So as you probably know, I am a huge advocate of free and open-source software I think all software should be free and open-source not to say that developers shouldn't be paid Obviously, there's difference between and that's what a lot of people don't get is When we say free software the software is free as in freedom and you can sell copies of it But that doesn't mean that the developers shouldn't be paid one's a You know a service and the other one's trying to pretend something as a product that isn't a product Anyway getting into the AI thing a lot of things. I've seen talking about AI talks about AI creating Software so software that creates software basically software that writes out code and I want to know what you guys think about that If that I guess there is software that's kind of doing that now But if it gets to the point where you can tell a piece of software, I need software that does this and it creates a program Do you think that's good or bad for free and open-source software? I mean you think about it a lot of the AI being developed is by big companies And it'd be great for them to be able to have software that would create new programs for them But if that's the case then anyone who gets a copy of the software Even if it's a proprietary piece of software if it was leaked now a son you can have it start creating free and open-source software And yeah, they're you know, you can be like oh well They can maybe they can license it to where you can't you know You have to release software that's created by their software in a certain license But yeah, good luck with that if it's right in the source code. How are you going to know? What machine made it and you can try to hide stuff in the source code But if you knew what to look for you can always remove that But just imagine if in the free and open-source software software world Someone had AI that could write software for you It could create you say I need software that does this and it creates it It would just like overnight Eliminate Microsoft and Apple and all these big software companies and all of a sudden all software would be open-source And and hopefully free if you feel you know, it's just like whatever you need to just tell this piece of software Again, this is completely theoretical. Who knows if this will ever happen. I guess it's happening You know again in minor uses now But if ever did just theoretically got to the point where you can just tell your computer Hey write a program that does this and it writes a program that does that It would completely change Everything Google I mean Google price still will be around because a lot of their you they don't make so much money off of you know Selling of software and to Google it's is really all about service So even if I wrote my own search engine I would still need means Machines to run it and that would cost a lot to share it with the world Although I could always write my own Search engine and use it on my own service, but it would still have to crawl the web for you Which takes a lot of processing power So I think Google probably be okay, but look at Apple and Microsoft It's like all of a sudden all their products would not be needed Because I mean office. I mean really they're not needed nowadays, you know So maybe they'd be okay because there's Libre office Which in my opinion is just as good as Microsoft office for everything I need to do and everything most people need to I'm sure that Microsoft office has some features that maybe some businesses need and Libre office may have some features that that doesn't have It all depends on your usage, but most users Libre office is Just as good as Microsoft offices in my opinion better. I think it takes up less system resources runs on more architectures and devices and operating systems. It's just more Flexible of a software then Microsoft office obviously costs less since it doesn't cost anything and Microsoft office costs Hundreds of dollars paying on what version you get and what they restrict you on But at the same time I See so many times businesses using office software spreadsheets and work documents where They really should be using specific software for those uses or although create forms in or spreadsheets To fill stuff out when really should have form, but how great would be to be like? Oh, I need you know I need to create a contact list for my clients have these type of fields and proof it creates It just you know speaking into a microphone say that People would have specific software for their companies doing specifically what they need and they wouldn't have to Pay these companies, but then at the same time now we have developers even the open source and then free software developers Who normally get paid for writing software and now out of a job? Whoo, but but so much could be done It would just change the world it really would But it also be weird because would everybody be using Different software like I go a friend's computer and his poor his computer's ring Nothing, I've ever seen before because all software he created his computer created for him. That'd be weird. That would be so weird But games I mean as I talked in last talk there's already software that generates assets for games and 3d environments and Does a great job just using reference photos creating new things so graphics and and assets for games are being created What happens if AI can now create you say oh, I want a first-person shooter. I want the first-person shooter to You know have a setting of a tropical place with palm trees with a lake And I want there to be fish in the lake that can jump out And I want you to be able to go swimming in the water and it creates that and they like okay now add functionality that if I Go too far out a shark comes and eats me and and software creates that how awesome would that be? And then you could share that like because it's like you could still I guess you'd still be you wouldn't be writing the code You'd be sharing it you could create it just by saying that and be like hey This is what I created and someone go oh that's cool I create something similar that but with different functionality and then maybe you can tell hey Computer take these two programs and merge them together because I created a program with a volcano and you know by saying create a volcano Or would you do that? Would you just tell the first program to add a volcano? I don't know it would be so weird again all theoretical But at the same time Would that lead to obviously less people raincoat because I love writing code But at the same time if I could just tell the computer or create it so software does this it would And who knows whether it make it more efficient than I would because maybe it would write everything in assembly directly, you know I Don't know you know I like raincoat I like understanding software and but would I do it as much if the computer would write it and Would that be I would think that'd be a bad thing because we would have less less understanding of computers And when we get to a point where nobody knew how software is written anymore You know it's like because nobody did it and we just relied on the computers for everything again. I Don't know. What do you think? Let me know comment On this podcast. Let me know what you think. 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