To be a lackey in the Age of Oligarchy
Or be ranked lower than a machine
"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves"
- Cassius, "Julius Caesar"
#Shakespeare #ArtificialIntelligence
First results from the Exoasteroids citizen science project! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #astronomy #news
In 1925, the concept of a Field Effect Transistor was patented in Canada (CA272437A). The fire was sparked here. Humanistic AI is now our brand.
#ComputationalThinking #GOFAI #Syntonicity
It was a great time for interactive programming. I had most of those books too, and a few tomes that made those look like pamphlets. The magic of client-server. The dawn of WYSIWYG.
25+ years before that, for me, it was #Forth for #GOFAI and #ComputationalThinking
www.scidata.ca/forth-a-synt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqz9...
One of the troubling movements in GenAI is the fading of FSM research. Once we let go of deterministic automata, we risk drifting too far from shore. It all goes back to Alonzo Church IMHO.
#ComputationalThinking
One of the happiest chats I ever had with my youngest son was when he explained Newton's first one and a half laws to me. Yes, it was a real 'my work here is done' moments. How fast the decades pass.
#education
Summarily discarding 'old' technology is a huge mistake. Burning bridges may inflate one's self-esteem, but it deflates their power. We can only hope that gems from the past aren't forever lost in subsequent waves of fashion and hype.
'AI winter' = AI ignorance.
#ComputationalThinking #GOFAI
WOPR was right:
"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
#GOFAI #ComputationalThinking
#ComputationalThinking is the key skill of the 1975-2035 epoch; quite literally existential. My contributions are mainly in the #CitizenScience, #Forth, and #GOFAI realms. But for clear, deep insight into human-machine early psychology, read www.salon.com/2006/09/14/b...
by @davidbrin.bsky.social
Cleo Abram interviewed Demis Hassabis (CEO Google Deep Mind)
I’ll follow up here with thoughts, as I make my way through. Clearly it’s going to be a good interview.
youtu.be/C0gErQtnNFE
Summarily discarding 'old' technology is a huge mistake. We can only hope that gems from the past aren't forever lost in subsequent waves of fashion and hype.
The #Forth programming language, pioneered at NRAO almost 60 years ago, is one such gem.
#Astronomy #SpaceFlight #ComputationalThinking
cacm.acm.org/opinion/fric...
We abandoned #GOFAI a century too soon. It's like the Sorcerer's Apprentice in "Fantasia" (1940)
Actually, just read his site CV and it looks like he never completed a PhD. Reminds me of a young me, when I chose #GOFAI over school. The current AI craze was not the first. Fun times.
#Education #CitizenScience
I had a chat with Dr. Jennings in the late '70s (his office/lab was near my home and I walked over to buy Microchess). I wish we'd spent more time discussing chess and AI at that time. Who knows? It might have altered both our trajectories. Certainly mine.
gofai.discourse.group/t/gofai-and-...
"let me look into a human eye"
- alas, if only
#Syntonicity
BlackBerry 5810 (2002)
I remember those days. Ordering computing treasures was hit-and-miss. I sometimes ordered parts (mostly CMOS chips) that just disappeared into the void.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
#Mystery
The bouncing ball captured nerd hearts for decades.
#Smalltalk
The COSMAC 1802 microprocessor (1976) had approximately 5,000 transistors, and 16x16-bit internal registers. The MOS 6502 (1975) had even fewer transistors, yet went on to power most of the early PC era.
A human brain weighs 3lbs and draws 30W.
Perhaps we're scaling in the wrong direction.
#GOFAI
I, and others, had ideas about a device that would store several programs in battery-powered static RAM, and xfer any of them to the computer using a primitive random-access menu (a few buttons essentially). Sort of a poor man's SSD.
Alas, too difficult for me at least.
#DIY #8-bit #computing
Sony Video TV Recorder GV8 (1988)
We Canadians are a pragmatic, low-key, contrarian bunch.
The closest I ever came to this type of experience was learning about the inner workings of Microchess for the KIM-1. #ComputationalThinking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYfC...
I once wrote a (commercial) cross-disassembler for the Palm handheld. I made the 6502 version free, largely because that was the first CPU that went viral. And somewhere between 1972 and 1976, I switched my dream from astronaut to cybernaut.
#PortableComputing
The more hyper-specialized, isolated, and atomized we become, the more oxygen there is for nuttery. We are in dire need of more polymaths.
#ComputationalThinking #Syntonicity
Don't forget that Sinclair was/is a Scottish territory.
#8-Bit #Legacy #Computing
My boss uses the same mechanism.
#8-bit #Legacy #Computing #GOFAI
ABC - Always Be Coding
#Bayesian #Anthropology
Oh, if only I could. Darned Atlantic ocean.
My heart is in the 6809 (and AY-3-8910), wherever I go.
#Legacy #Computing #8-bit #GOFAI