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  • Physically fighting a closing CD ROM tray in the 90s made me feel back then that the robot apocalypse couldn’t possibly be that far away.

    But then I started working as a programmer, and while there are some niche technologies that are impressive on the surface, today’s “AI” simply lacks the advanced reasoning required to fulfill the role beyond a fancy autocomplete, and while the mechanisms and cybernetics in humanoid robots are objectively cool, there’s no power source compact and efficient enough to make Sonny a realistic possibility any time soon.

    I think we’re closer to “Brazil” than “A.I.”. Possibly the future depicted in The Terminator, if you remove the intelligence and intent aspect of Skynet. I can easily imagine some battlefield planning software (deployed by Peter Thiel, because of course it’s him) going rogue and causing a similar future.




  • Nicest: Factorio. No matter what you build, people will applaud you for it. Someone comes in, excusing their design for neither being efficient nor pretty. “If you had fun building it, it’s already great.”

    Worst: War Thunder. So much toxicity in the chat it’s impressive. Plus a fair bit of edgy kids dabbling in racism and neo nazism. I guess that’s a side effect of being Free to Play

    EDIT: Downvoted by war thunder players.




  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    10 days ago

    While your statement is true, it made me wonder if it’s theoretically possible to do it with something else than a computer.

    Let’s define the simplest form of an AI: An if-then-else clause… Would anything not alive capable of doing this task be considered a computer?
    I guess a mechanical contraption could do it, but that would also make it a mechanical computer, right?