"It won’t be character based at all: it will be visual. Rather than typing, we’ll draw what we want."
I've often had that thought too. When I was at university I played with CAD for designing circuits. You could drop components onto your workspace, connect them up and see if you had a design that met your needs. It was so easy (and fun). Why can't programming be like that?
There's also a similar article which discusses the same paper:
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/why-do-neural-networks-work-5545c...