So much of the drift has just been marketing. Rebranding a Markov Chain stapled onto a particularly large graph as Master Computer from Tron.
I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be… every time something new comes out it’s always dismissed because “it’s basically just a X that does Y”. I think that will continue to be the case until there is some literal connection to actual brains, in which case the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.
I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be…
The heavy investment in AI is coming under the assumption that these advanced processes will replace huge portions of the human workforce.
So we don’t need lawyers, because we just put prompts into a Law AI and it gives us a verdict. We don’t need doctors, because we just put symptoms into a Medical AI and it gives us a diagnosis and treatment plan. We don’t need salespeople, because we just put the product into a Marketing AI and it spits out a bunch of comvincing ad copy.
the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.
We already connect our brains to our computers. We just use screens and keyboards as our interface.
I suppose you could argue that a guy with a calculator or a camera or a chat app is mentally different than one without it. But I think the goal with AI is supplementing human minds, not complementing then.
Wait does it teach ai programming in BASIC?
10 dim prompt 20 input(prompt) 30 pring "Nice to meet you"+prompt 40 play g3 c4 e4 50 goto 20As a kid I used to check out books from the library that had little BASIC games you could transcribe into your PC. Times have certainly changed.
I’m literally on an internship training course where the Exercises Left For The Readers are implementing Number Guessing Games on the various technologies talked about on the course. I’m like “thanks, but I read about this particular exercise extensively the BASIC age. I’m not going to redo these things unless your training material will have little cartoon robots. Like, you know, in the Usborne books or something.”
Why would an internship train you on an antiquated language that hasn’t been used in decades?
Well they train me in JavaScript frameworks and such. I allege this knowledge will be useless in a few decades. Or even less so, based on my meagre knowledge so far.
JavaScript is used on virtually every website on the planet today though. BASIC hasn’t been used for anything in like 40 years.
20-ish, rather. You can still find some legacy systems running some version of VisualBasic on Windows.
Also disagree with op, javascript is the current “lingua franca” of programming. Unless every browser decides to allow scripting in a less shotgun-your-foot language, javascript will remain widely used.
Unless every browser decides to allow scripting in a less shotgun-your-foot language, javascript will remain widely used.
It’s called web assembly, and all the major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) now support it. That’s not to say that Javascript is going to disappear, but other languages might take over much of its marketshare.
Even wasm relies on javascript and frankly, I see its existence as a failure of many layers. Machine code -> Operating system -> Browser -> WASM (emulated machine code)
