Posts by Blue Pumpkin 160 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
Most of the globe doesn't speak English so it matters less to them whether they get bad English AI or bad Chinese AI - in addition they are all foreign corporations as far as they're concerned - and many do have a pathological desire to stay clear of the US and any other ex-colonial states.
But in the end it comes down to money and availability - if your US AI is either unavailable or more expensive than a competitor's, then you loose.
The larger 2900 series of machines were heavily influenced and borrowed from the experimental work of the University of Manchester’s MU5.
Built in collaboration with ICL West Gorton which was just around the corner from the university.
Lots of wonderful historical information here from my old prof of processor architecture - https://ethw.org/The_University_of_Manchester_MU5_Computer_System
The worst part is coming back to something you did ages ago and try to figure out what you did - although it's not as bas as APL !
And just like BASIC, it's still going https://www.forth.com
I remember attempting to write a FORTH interpreter in 8086 assembler for fun ... with only 4k available - those were the days.
There I was expecting Alice Roberts or Joann Fletcher turning up to tell us how they had found evidence of long lost traces of intelligence from past versions that could still be found today...
And how the use of any intelligence became an evolutionary dead-end in favour of a six-legged dromedary approach.
> the difference between a microcomputer, a minicomputer and a mainframe
You can race some minicomputers down the hallway - microcomputers and mainframes not so much
The MicroVAX coffee table edition was the fastest - good turning circle but difficult to steer except in straight lines - especially when sitting on it ....
.. to invent the AI bot subscription at a cost of a few million $ per year.
Would bring them more money than paying the lawyers for what will no doubt be perceived as detrimental in the long run.
I mean, does the NYT actively not want to have any influence over the future ? Or prefer to leave it to the likes of antisocial media ?
And the museum is fabulous and an unmissable visit when in Stockholm .... https://www.vasamuseet.se/en
But was generally not good for the server : Doom as a tool for system administration
There comes a point in time when you have to announce to people that their technology has gone to the other side and they have no choice but to renew. Even if it's not quite true, but just to keep your sanity ...
If only it were equally simple with central heating ....
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