Non-programmers make this mistake all the time: thinking that the syntax is the hard part of programming.
No, the hard part of programming is understanding in very specific and rigid details how to accomplish a task. What the author doesn't realize is the enormous amount of processing power, shared culture and empathy that goes into human interaction.
Even mighty Google doesn't have the compute power or the architecture to replicate this. Until computers can understand humans at a human-level this will not be possible. Several breakthroughs will be necessary, and even still I expect decades/centuries before it happens if it even happens. Essentially we're talking about the Singularity.
No, the hard part of programming is understanding in very specific and rigid details how to accomplish a task. What the author doesn't realize is the enormous amount of processing power, shared culture and empathy that goes into human interaction.
Even mighty Google doesn't have the compute power or the architecture to replicate this. Until computers can understand humans at a human-level this will not be possible. Several breakthroughs will be necessary, and even still I expect decades/centuries before it happens if it even happens. Essentially we're talking about the Singularity.