the snail
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Lol that was me.You wrote out your code,sent it off,got it back a few days later,to discover you'd made a mistake,then repeat. I tried writing a program in Algol once, and apparently it crashed their computer.
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Lol that was me.You wrote out your code,sent it off,got it back a few days later,to discover you'd made a mistake,then repeat. I tried writing a program in Algol once, and apparently it crashed their computer.
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briantrumpet
Shaman
It taught you patience, if nothing else! And I remember seeing the shoeboxes full of punchcards being delivered to the klever kids...
Psamathe
Guru
For me it was teletypes with printed 80 column print for output and where even facing my first ever keyboard I could type faster than the device accepted. Never made much use of the paper tape attached machines.
(By Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17821795)
Then went on to punch cards but we used the punch machines ourselves.
BoldonLad
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Algol! I forgotten about that!
Poacher
Regular
60 or 68? I wrote a nifty program in Algol 60 which would print a neatly tabulated calendar for any given year, but never encountered Algol 68. There was no provision in the formal language definition for printed output, but a clever postgraduate had written a procedure to print one character at a time, including space!
BoldonLad
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Oh dear, I cannot remember!, it is a LONG time ago. But, 1960, I would have been 13yo, and, we didnt get to use Computers at school, so, I would guess it was Algol-68. I don't recall doing anything "useful" with it, by 1968 I was doing Cobol and IBM-Assembler 😊
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briantrumpet
Shaman
AI isn't very good at counting.
Poacher
Regular
60 was quite long lived; I was programming in it in 1971, before 68 was widely (?) used. Nothing commercially useful until I encountered PDP11 assembler, and never used that in the workplace.
Beebo
Guru
Grok is allegedly producing child porn deep fakes.
It’s a criminal offence, so who should be prosecuted for distributing these images?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5w0k99r1o
It’s a criminal offence, so who should be prosecuted for distributing these images?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5w0k99r1o
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Maybe the SAS could kidnap the owner and put him on trial in London ?
Psamathe
Guru
Maybe time to send in the SAS in helicopters for a bit of "extraction" of responsible individual at the top of the organisation now that it's established that such practices are fine and that UK PM seems OK about the principle.
Pblakeney
Guru
I'm not sure if this counts as an AI fail, or an AI pass but it is interesting if you have the time, 53 minutes.
A photography YouTuber asks Chat GPT to theorise about AI from a future perspective and then questions the answers.
TDLR: Chat GPT gives you what you want to hear, and that must surely be reflected in the final conclusions.
Final conclusions TDLR: We are all living in our own individual reality, and we are all wrong.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLUISQxE5uw&t=1050s
A photography YouTuber asks Chat GPT to theorise about AI from a future perspective and then questions the answers.
TDLR: Chat GPT gives you what you want to hear, and that must surely be reflected in the final conclusions.
Final conclusions TDLR: We are all living in our own individual reality, and we are all wrong.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLUISQxE5uw&t=1050s
bobzmyunkle
Veteran
AI failing to destroy us for a while longer?
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...delays-timeline-possible-destruction-humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...delays-timeline-possible-destruction-humanity
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briantrumpet
Shaman
This is quite a giggle. A satirical blog post lead Google AI to believe that the writer's cat is a real human who featured in a Telegraph article. Here is his reflection on the experience. https://www.tom-cox.com/thinking-about-thinking/
The satire kind of gives the game away, as every picture of Philippa Islington-Smythe is of his cat.
The satire kind of gives the game away, as every picture of Philippa Islington-Smythe is of his cat.
PurplePenguin
Well-Known Member
AI is quite good at agreeing with you when all you want is validation of feelings. Sort of the opposite of an online forum which specialises in debate.
