Skynet gets another weapon

[WR Moore]

Since post #2 mentioned crashes, the way planes are set up now, the pilots no longer have direct control over the flight systems. All their inputs are routed through the flight control computer. There have already been crashes due to:

1. Pilots not really having all that much "stick time" flying the aircraft. Lack of familiarity with actual flying.

2. The FCC interfering with human inputs during emergencies.

 

[cmj8591]

Every time I let my computer use AI to post here I get an infraction.

 

[Magnum_PI]

Just what NO ONE asked for... good grief.

 

[Fredo Batali]

I miss communicating with drums in the forest...

De Oppresso Liber

 

[CajunBass]

Oh come on. What could go wrong?

 

[BC38]

And just think......I was happy when I got my first Texas A&M pocket calculator.

My first one was a Texas INSTRUMENTS.
We got it for Christmas when I was 9 or 10.
I say WE because it was so darned expensive it was a "shared" gift between my sister and I.
The other big ticket gift that year was a cassette player/recorder, which we also had to share.

 

[DWalt]

I never did it, but I remember that early computer enthusiasts had a way to convert a VHS (television) recorder into a tape memory storage device. I did have an audio cassette recorder as memory, I think when I had one of those Timex or Radio Shack computers. I don't remember which. I had several of each. I learned a lot from using one of those crude Timex computers. I had one of the more advanced design Timexes.

 

[Golddollar]

I
Even a really cheap Chromebook computer today has 64Gb of storage and 4Gb of RAM memory. That's more than sixty THOUSAND times more memory than the 64k of memory that the Apollo Astronauts had to work with.

FWIW, most of us carry around a cell phone in our pocket that has 100,000 (or more) times the storage and computing power that our Apollo astronauts used to get to the moon and back.

I remember one year I got a bread maker for my dad and stepmother. Pop said, "Just think, there is probably more computer power in that bread maker than there was in a main frame computer."

 

[pharmer]

...... The technological advances that we have made in the last half-century completely DWARF all of the advances that humanity has made over the last 6,000 years of recorded human history....

Absolutely true regarding technology. Have we advanced as a species though? Joe

 

[lihpster]

Absolutely true regarding technology. Have we advanced as a species though? Joe

In the last 50 years? That's a pretty quick evolutionary shift. Tech moves faster than humans. Although it does seem that somewhere along the line, someone came up with a policy of saving energy by only running the gene pool filter on alternating Thursdays.

 

[BC38]

Absolutely true regarding technology. Have we advanced as a species though? Joe

Unfortunately, no. People are still people., and don't really seem to have changed much in the last 6000 years of recorded history. Or at least we don't seem to have IMPROVED much.
If the average person improved at the same rate as our technology, we wouldn't have most of the problems we're trying to deal with today. JMO...

 

[rwsmith]

Obviously,...

Mohammad, the pervy robot.

Lord, help us, for we are doomed!

A 'male' humanoid robot was unveiled in Saudi Arabia. It then inappropriately touched a female reporter.

...this was programmed by guys.


...

 

[SMSgt]

Good point, but my first thought is...
Does that in some way reduce their liability - or even shift the liability to someone else (the programmers)?

I think Boeing can answer that with their 737 Max experience.

 

[jeffrefrig]

My first calculator.