Google chief scientist predicts AI could perform at the level of a junior coder in a year

Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist, thinks that AI will soon be able to replicate the skills of a junior software engineer.

“Not that far,” he said during Sequoia Capital’s “AI Ascent” event, when asked how far AI was from being on par with an entry-level engineer. “I will claim that’s probably possible in the next year-ish.”

Plenty of tech leaders have made similar predictions as models have continued to improve at coding, and AI tools become increasingly popular…