Re:The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier
by amag on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @07:03PM
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This all reminds me of the Y2K debacle. The world would end. Everything would stop. A common example given in the media (by "IT-professionals") was that all elevators would stop, I was always like: "WTF would an elevator check what date it is?"
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Yeah. I remember Y2K and since I was already taking baby steps in programming back then, I was also perplexed as for why it would matter.
16 years later now, I see that about the only thing that could do some real damage was software in factories and stock exchanges breaking, and requiring downtime to fix. It would be that downtime that could do actual harm. Because I've now seen some code that runs in factories and... man, how this is totally and utterly fucked up. I'm happy nothing bad happened back in 2000. I'm also surprised that some manufacturing plants are running at all.