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Okay, down vote away. Lemmy has such an ignorant hate boner against AI.
Computers were fucking trash in the 50s. Dumb tech enthusiasts all said the same shit people say about AI today: computers are unreliable, create more problems than they solve, are ham-fisted solutions to problems that require human interaction, etc. here are the HUGE problems computers had that we solved before the 70s.
Problem: No standard way to represent negative numbers in binary.
Solution: Two's complement became the standard.
Problem: Bit errors from unreliable hardware.
Solution: Hamming codes, CRC, and other ECC methods.
Problem: Inconsistent and error-prone real number math.
Solution: IEEE 754 standardized floating-point formats and behavior.
Problem: Each computer had its own incompatible instruction set.
Solution: Standardized ISAs like x86 and ARM became dominant.
Problem: Memory was slow, small, and expensive.
Solution: Virtual memory, caching, and paging systems.
Problem: Basic operations like sorting were inefficient.
Solution: Research produced efficient algorithms (e.g., Quicksort, Dijkstra’s).
Problem: No formal approach to designing logic circuits.
Solution: Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, and FSMs standardized design.
Problem: Programs used unstructured jumps and were hard to follow.
Solution: Structured programming and control constructs (if, while, etc.).
Problem: No standard way to represent letters or symbols.
Solution: ASCII and later Unicode standardized text encoding.
Problem: Code was written in raw machine or assembly code.
Solution: High-level languages and compilers made programming more accessible.
Its just ignorant to be acting like any of the problems we face with AI won't be sorted just as they were with computers.
Did you at any point in this raving lunacy of a rant stop to think that maybe, just maybe the reason people hate AI is because it's bad?
its like hating knives. humans are problems, not tools
It's like hating a shitty Black and Decker oscillating clipper, when it breaks, randomly cuts your thumb off, or fails to clip the weeniest of leaves from your hedge, when a pair of manual clippers work just fine.
If it's a tool, it's a bad tool being marketed as the best and only tool you'll ever need again.