This ain't spooky....
just read where the gubmint is getting AI powered fighters...can't post a link for some reason.
just read where the gubmint is getting AI powered fighters...can't post a link for some reason.
Maybe 20 years ago I was reading in a computer magazine where one of the big shot code creators was lamenting about the unintended consequences of cheap memory. When memory was expensive code had to be concise and well written. When memory got cheap, code monkeys got sloppy when they wrote code. If there was a problem, they'd just write more code to fix the problem instead of finding the cause of the issue and correcting it.
Good point, but my first thought is...Great. Now when a fighter jet crashes into your house, they'll blame "software error" instead of pilot error.
Back in the late '60s I knew a guy who was a professor at a Penn State extension campus. He told me about a computer at the main campus that had a self diagnosis program and a short list of fixes to resolve common problems. While doing some back checking, they found an instance where the computer chained several of the fixes to resolve an issue that wasn't on the list of problems to be solved. Much chin scratching and hair pulling ensued. Twern't any code for it to do that.
And, that was in the proverbial stone age so far as computers go........
Maybe 20 years ago I was reading in a computer magazine where one of the big shot code creators was lamenting about the unintended consequences of cheap memory. When memory was expensive code had to be concise and well written. When memory got cheap, code monkeys got sloppy when they wrote code. If there was a problem, they'd just write more code to fix the problem instead of finding the cause of the issue and correcting it.
Just think. Today, anyone can buy a brand new 4 TB drive for less than $100, and a used one for less than $50. Back when I was still working in the late 00s, we needed to buy a 1 TB drive to store some very large graphics files. Everyone thought that it was miraculous that a drive could even be that large. I do not remember its price, but I think it was several thousand $. The first HD I bought was in the mid 1980s, and it was relatively tiny, less (maybe much less) than 10 MB. Yet it was over $1000 back then. At that time, when you bought a PC, EVERYTHING was priced separately. I think the first one I had (an IBM PC) priced out to be close to $20K. And that was in 1985 dollars. And it did virtually nothing even close to what the simplest $200 netbook from Best Buy is capable of doing today. We didn't know how primitive we were back in those pre-Windows days. Can anyone imagine what the AI technology will be 40 years from now? Assuming that anyone will be around to use it.
My latest story. After about a year, I decided to list some un-needed items on eBay last night. As anyone familiar with selling on eBay knows, you need to provide a verbal description of the item you are selling. When I got to that part, a little pop-up appeared asking if I wanted eBay's AI to write my item's description. I passed, but I probably should have at least tried it to see how well it would have read my mind.
Great. Now when a fighter jet crashes into your house, they'll blame "software error" instead of pilot error.