As a fellow pedant, I have to point out that even a simple tic-tac-toe algorithm is “AI”.

The term AI was coined at the Dartmouth College Summer Workshop in 1956. Early AI focused on developing expert systems and things like heuristics.

Most people conflate AI, the technical term for computerized decision making in general with the SciFi concept of super intelligent computers, and there has been a revolution since about 2010, in that computationally intensive neutral networks that were theoretical became more conceivable and practical. But LLMs are just a single family of AI techniques.

This, even bad 90’s game computer AI is just as valid to call AI as the latest OpenAI model. It’s just more primitive. Orders of magnitude more primitive, and no neural networks or LLM.

Mythbusters did this with coffee whitener as I recall. Impressive.

This has also happened to sawmills and flour mills, under less controlled circumstances.

The mad “gold rush” mentality towards AGI is nerve-racking. I’m reminded of Protogen’s attitude towards the Protomolecule in The Expanse.

I figured we still had 5-ish years to figure it out, but the rapid progress against HLE (Humanity’s Last Exam) makes me nervous.

But sure, let’s just rush headlong towards the precipice, how hard can alignment be really? My anxiety about the future and the importance of getting this right are not eased by people scoffing because “just count the fingers!” When the field is changing so fast, looking at what was going on a few years ago isn’t helpful.

Well, past my pay grade.

It’s like the classic essay, “Why Jonny Can’t Code”.

I remember entering program listings from computer magazines into the Vic 20 as a kid, then modding them to make new things. But still, it was a minority of kids who had a computer back then, and even most of them (and myself most of the time) would just play games rather than write games.

The difference now is that everyone has a cell phone, but it’s still only a small minority that care.

Always comes to mind. Why buy it if you need to crack the DRM someday and become a criminal? Just pirate it in the first place.

I’m pretty sure that 80% if what we learned from the Nazi/Imperial Japan super unethical experiments was “what can a psychotic doctor justify in order to have an excuse to torture people to death.”

Maybe 20% was arguably useful, and most of that could have been researched ethically with other methods.

Made the Eros comparison just a few comments above!

They were dead anyways (thanks to Protogen releasing the protomolecule), the real tragedy would be to let their deaths be in vain…

Eros in the Expanse.

Rush -> Rash?

Shalom!

That’s what I’m assuming the original diagram is showing, the “Observable Universe” in some sort of radically increasing scale.

The baddest Heeb this side of Tel Aviv.

I think the association came from emulation. IIRC, you can sometimes play Colecovision ROMS with the MSX emulator in RetroArch, although it’s been a while since I dealt with this.

For some reason I’m reminded of the Colecovision and the Colecovision Adam. Did those share any architecture with the MSX devices?

I’m assuming interactive fiction means more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure books or Fighting Fantasy game books.

Article mentions text adventures as well, but old school like Zork and such wouldn’t work well without a keyboard. Maybe more the nineties era Gabriel Knight and Beneath a Steel Sky,but that would suffer from a black and white screen.

I heard the kids these days are all electrowetting.

I was looking! I probably will. Was looking through the reviews.

Jealous! I’ve wanted a Casio calculator watch since I was a child. Technically my off brand smart watch has a calculator, but it’s not the same.

Floppy disks are still used in industrial automation. If something works, you don’t mess with it until you need to. The thing with floppies, is that there are lots of them floating around, and they last a long time. You can also write different information to them.

I’ve got a couple of 8" floppies near my desk that aren’t used for anything anymore, but I bet they still work. So even though there are no floppies being produced, the existing supply of floppies will last a heck of a long time.

Just like floppy disks and VHS tapes. Every 3.5" floppy that will ever be made has already been made.