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UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

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

umbraroze OP ,

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

state_electrician ,

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 ,

That was before the dicketies.

MHanak ,

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

youtu.be/BlWyKKJF0r4

drspod ,

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

umbraroze OP ,

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 ,

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

SurfinBird ,

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

Xeroxchasechase , (edited )

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>
Silic0n_Alph4 , 

<span style="color:#323232;">Syntax error on line 30
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Please insert Pringles verification can to use pring function 
</span>
Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

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 ,

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 ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

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

Nougat , (edited )

I ran ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068.

palordrolap ,

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

tover153 ,

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

Sphks ,
@Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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

turbodrooler ,

As a kid I used to check out books from the library that had little BASIC games you could transcribe into your PC. Times have certainly changed.

umbraroze OP ,

I’m literally on an internship training course where the Exercises Left For The Readers are implementing Number Guessing Games on the various technologies talked about on the course. I’m like “thanks, but I read about this particular exercise extensively the BASIC age. I’m not going to redo these things unless your training material will have little cartoon robots. Like, you know, in the Usborne books or something.”

Nytefyre ,

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.

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