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I don't think we're too far away from AI's that can refactor compiled code into any language of your choice; then all software will be open source.
Edit: lul; at least 50 people are butt hurt over the idea that an AI can decipher assembler in 5-10 years
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-alphacode
People overestimate how much it matters that ai "doesn't have the capacity to understand it's output"
Even if it doesn't, is that a massive problem to overcome? There's studies showing that if you have an ai list the potential problems with an output and then apply them to its own output it performs significantly better. Perhaps we're just a recursive algorithm away from that.
Perhaps we're just a recursive algorithm.