Just browsing my photos from 10 years ago. I was amused when I browsed the university library computer science artificial intelligence shelf. ...I sometimes wish AI had stayed at this level.

Skullgrid , 4 hours ago

oh god, you’re making me think of the difference between a procedurally generated level and a randomly generated one.

The fucking generative AIs don’t even have anything to stop it spewing crap

match , 28 minutes ago

wave function collapse is a vastly superior procedural generation technique to generative pretrained transformer

SurfinBird , 4 hours ago

Its object oriented programming. The object is to get investors $$$

Fubarberry , 4 hours ago

Fun fact, the Perceptron is basically the first machine learning AI, and it was invented in 1943. It took a long time and many advancements in hardware before it became recognizable as the AI of today, but it’s hardly a new idea.

marcos , 3 hours ago

People only discovered that multi-layer non-linear neural networks work at the 90s. It’s not really reasonable to equate perceptrons with the stuff people use today.

Fubarberry , 2 hours ago

Obviously there have been major improvements over the past 80 years, but that’s still considered the first neural network. The need for multi-layer neural networks was recognized by 1969, but the knowledge of how to do that took awhile to be worked out.

drspod , 4 hours ago

You can tell just from the font that this book is from the 80s

umbraroze OP , 4 hours ago

The font is Revue! People often say that their first love-hate font was Comic Sans - well, this was the first font I thought was pretty damn cool and I saw it getting run to the ground with overuse in early 1990s. It was pretty much in half of the ads in early 1990s. (My theory: It was bundled with a popular graphic design passion package / clipart bundle, Arts & Letters, and everyone made their ads with it. I can’t wait for the day when I finally get arsed to install Windows 3.0 environment and my copy of Arts & Letters and prove the doubters wrong)

I half expected the first comment about the font to be about The Room to be honest.

drspod , 1 hour ago

Thanks! I was racking my brain trying to think of where I knew it from, and after seeing the page that you linked I’m almost certain that it’s After Burner that is causing my brain to trigger the 80s association.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/08755c71-1ec0-4d07-bd47-be4399b11b06.jpeg

Nougat , 4 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

I ran ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068.

palordrolap , 3 hours ago

Why do you think you wanted to run ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068?

Xeroxchasechase , 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

Wait does it teach ai programming in BASIC?

<span style="color:#323232;">10 dim prompt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">20 input(prompt)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">30 pring "Nice to meet you"+prompt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">40 play g3 c4 e4
</span><span style="color:#323232;">50 goto 20
</span>

tover153 , 5 hours ago

I remember that book! Wasn’t it basically, how to make your own Eliza with a bunch of If…Then’s?

Sphks , 4 hours ago

It’s way more exhaustive actually ! books.google.fr/books?id=7mWeBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&hl=…

UnderpantsWeevil , 5 hours ago

So much of the drift has just been marketing. Rebranding a Markov Chain stapled onto a particularly large graph as Master Computer from Tron.

Nytefyre , 5 hours ago

Same. Wished it had just stayed as an idea. Wished it had stayed as just a concept to be used in movies, games, shows and books. Wished it had just stayed in it's boundaries.

umbraroze OP , 5 hours ago

Sorry for the potato photograph, my phone was a potato, I was a student after all

state_electrician , 4 hours ago

Our phones back then were actual potatoes and we wore them next to the turnip on our belt, as was the fashion back then.

massive_bereavement , 2 hours ago

That was before the dicketies.

MHanak , 3 hours ago

A propos potato cameras (i recommend checking out the channel):

youtu.be/BlWyKKJF0r4