Okay, down vote away. Lemmy has such an ignorant hate boner against AI.
Computers were fucking trash in the 50s. Dumb tech enthusiasts all said the same shit people say about AI today: computers are unreliable, create more problems than they solve, are ham-fisted solutions to problems that require human interaction, etc. here are the HUGE problems computers had that we solved before the 70s.
- Signed Number Representation
Problem: No standard way to represent negative numbers in binary.
Solution: Two's complement became the standard.
- Error Detection & Correction
Problem: Bit errors from unreliable hardware.
Solution: Hamming codes, CRC, and other ECC methods.
- Floating Point Arithmetic
Problem: Inconsistent and error-prone real number math.
Solution: IEEE 754 standardized floating-point formats and behavior.
- Instruction Set Standardization
Problem: Each computer had its own incompatible instruction set.
Solution: Standardized ISAs like x86 and ARM became dominant.
- Memory Access and Management
Problem: Memory was slow, small, and expensive.
Solution: Virtual memory, caching, and paging systems.
- Efficient Algorithms
Problem: Basic operations like sorting were inefficient.
Solution: Research produced efficient algorithms (e.g., Quicksort, Dijkstra’s).
- Circuit Logic Design
Problem: No formal approach to designing logic circuits.
Solution: Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, and FSMs standardized design.
- Program Control Flow
Problem: Programs used unstructured jumps and were hard to follow.
Solution: Structured programming and control constructs (if, while, etc.).
- Character Encoding
Problem: No standard way to represent letters or symbols.
Solution: ASCII and later Unicode standardized text encoding.
- Programming Languages and Compilation
Problem: Code was written in raw machine or assembly code.
Solution: High-level languages and compilers made programming more accessible.
Its just ignorant to be acting like any of the problems we face with AI won't be sorted just as they were with computers.