A.I. could destroy the world.

Ah the memories.

Remember when you had to load a CD driver in the autoexe.bat to get a CD drive to work?

When I started at the hospital all they had was an IBM Mainframe that had separate dishwasher sized components for each function of the system. It had a CPU box that had flip switches, then you started the IO (input/output) box, a 6mb memory box, then the 100mb hard drive was a flip open container you put in 5 13" platters,

I was hired in 1995 by HCA to install a $4.5 million dollar network that would connect the local hospital to the HCA network of 110 other hospitals. I had no training or ever even anything saying I knew crap about computers. They called me because they said they liked to hire locals, and everywhere they went in dodge and asked about someone with computer knowledge, my name came up. I was changing the oil on a car when they called. I was running a computer diagnostics system made by SUN. I spent my weekends building PCs and hanging CAT5 at the hospital. I set up 3Com closets first and I had to learn to install & manage on my own., then HCA changed to Cisco so I witch all routers & switches in my closets to Cisco and had to learn to install & manage on my own, then they went to Aruba and I switch them all out again.
 
You know, we don't have anybody to talk too about this stuff -LOL-

The company figured computers was the same to have so "RENTED" a computer. The money rent was more than my pay. They handed the computer Program book to me & said that I'm the computer guy now. My Boss knew I had computers at my house & I guess he figured all programmers are the same so...
 
So does anyone know why the Delete or Rubout character is all "1's" in the ASC II code?
No, I don't. Never got into the 1's & 0's assembly language. Tried it once and said it wasn't my cup of tea. Using the If Then and Else made so much more sense LOL.
 
No, I don't. Never got into the 1's & 0's assembly language. Tried it once and said it wasn't my cup of tea. Using the If Then and Else made so much more sense LOL.
Well, it dates back to the days of using paper tape as a means to enter data/programs into computers. Nothing like having an old ASR-33 Teletype in your office, clanking away while making machine gun sounds, while punching out a paper tape with your program or data.

If you had an error in the tape, you could "rub it out" by hand punching all bit positions on the offending character on the tape. In other words, you could add holes ("1's") to the paper tape, but you couldn't take the holes away. That is why the Delete or Rubout character is all 1's in the ASC II character set.
 
The very fact that people can imagine A.I. could run amuck, and even visualize it in the mind's eye, is a good example of why A.I. will never be anything more than the simulation of intelligence. That doesn't mean it can't be abused in the wrong hands, but that the idea of A.I. becoming self-learning to the point of becoming a threat is crazy.
 
It is easier for people to believe in what they do not understand than to admit that the governments of countries control the minds of people ... Or maybe in the future it will be easier to attribute mass slavery to A.I. and people will believe. And fight A.I. it will be pointless...
 
I still have my VIC 20 & my Commodore 64 [ wasn't that $600? then:shock: ] Electronic stuff dies when not used a long time but some day I'm going & try & see if they work. I wish I had learned "C" but...
some of those old computers have a boatload of gold hiding inside of them.. Probably more than $600 worth
 
From my understanding is that at current computer or ai levels is that you can teach it a book from chapter 1 to 10. It can learn everything 6 ways to Sunday in those chapters. It can even write essays about it or make speeches about it using various peoples face, voice or writing styles.
It is, however, unable to write chapter 11 for the book in the clear logical manner.
I do stress this is at current levels.
What some people are concerned about is that future tech or ai will not only be able to write a chapter 11... But also make changes to units 1-10.
This brings up many possible theories about not just the world but the universe. .. Which I'm not going to bring up here
 
From my understanding is that at current computer or ai levels is that you can teach it a book from chapter 1 to 10. It can learn everything 6 ways to Sunday in those chapters. It can even write essays about it or make speeches about it using various peoples face, voice or writing styles.
It is, however, unable to write chapter 11 for the book in the clear logical manner.
I do stress this is at current levels.
What some people are concerned about is that future tech or ai will not only be able to write a chapter 11... But also make changes to units 1-10.
This brings up many possible theories about not just the world but the universe. .. Which I'm not going to bring up here
That is the fear a lot of people have from not knowing the true function of A.I. A.I. can not do anything its programmer has not written the code for it to do. It can ONLY do what it is written in code. It can not "read a book", but only scan the text and give an analysis according to its programming. It can find text, and it can put that text together in a form the programmer has coded, but it has no thoughts or intelligence to know what is being scanned.
 
That is the fear a lot of people have from not knowing the true function of A.I. A.I. can not do anything its programmer has not written the code for it to do. It can ONLY do what it is written in code. It can not "read a book", but only scan the text and give an analysis according to its programming. It can find text, and it can put that text together in a form the programmer has coded, but it has no thoughts or intelligence to know what is being scanned
I summarized in layman terms. Of course its not going to sit at a desk and read a book.

I guess code is the key and the ability and imagination of the coder. No point going into details any deeper than that.
 
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