And heading straight for Idiocracy, both in terms of dollar value and average worth of human IQ post-AI era:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/Not only Star Trek were visionaries!
Today's AI is a lot closer to how dumb me was imagining computers back in 1985, when I had my first interaction with a Romanian clone of ZX-Spectrum in the school's newly equipped computer science laboratory: https://retroit.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG-20200707-2...
Must say, I was quite afraid to even press the keys at the time! My brothers, many years later, had an epiphany on why that was. You see, I was a countryside boy. I grew in a world where becoming a tractor driver was a sought of career. Thing is, a tractor is a mechanical contraption. And you know what mechanical contraptions have in common? You can't just pull levers and push pedals at random without knowing what you're doing and expect the thing to work, au contraire! You'll break the expensive damn thing.
So my first interaction with the KEYBOARD of the Home Computer '85 was overly gentle - which probably helped because they were shit.
But beyond that, nobody told me what computers are good for and I could only imagine they could help me solve the numerous math problems that were left as "exercise" in the textbooks that gave two helpful examples "1+1 = 2" and "1-1=0" and then posted the problem without the answer: "now prove the Fermat theorem!"
Fuck math and fuck the educational system! The only purpose of those textbooks, just like AI, is to provide me with WORKING examples from which I can LEARN. That's the whole point of living, learning to solve increasingly harder things so eventually YOU can be the frontier. And no AI will take that from me, they are just glorified textbooks.
Not only Star Trek were visionaries!
Today's AI is a lot closer to how dumb me was imagining computers back in 1985, when I had my first interaction with a Romanian clone of ZX-Spectrum in the school's newly equipped computer science laboratory: https://retroit.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG-20200707-2...
Must say, I was quite afraid to even press the keys at the time! My brothers, many years later, had an epiphany on why that was. You see, I was a countryside boy. I grew in a world where becoming a tractor driver was a sought of career. Thing is, a tractor is a mechanical contraption. And you know what mechanical contraptions have in common? You can't just pull levers and push pedals at random without knowing what you're doing and expect the thing to work, au contraire! You'll break the expensive damn thing.
So my first interaction with the KEYBOARD of the Home Computer '85 was overly gentle - which probably helped because they were shit.
But beyond that, nobody told me what computers are good for and I could only imagine they could help me solve the numerous math problems that were left as "exercise" in the textbooks that gave two helpful examples "1+1 = 2" and "1-1=0" and then posted the problem without the answer: "now prove the Fermat theorem!"
Fuck math and fuck the educational system! The only purpose of those textbooks, just like AI, is to provide me with WORKING examples from which I can LEARN. That's the whole point of living, learning to solve increasingly harder things so eventually YOU can be the frontier. And no AI will take that from me, they are just glorified textbooks.