You can call me AI

As you note, the ghosts were a simple algorithm that oriented the ghosts movement towards where the player was located. The most complicated parts of the equation were ensuring the ghosts stayed in the lanes, and whether they had line of sight to the player.

I was able to build a simple if:then:else algorithm for similar movements of the baddies for a game I built for HS coding class. I guess I was an early AI programmer in HS?

So… where are my billions?

Ah… your edit beat my post: I owe you a frosty one!

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A rendering of the interior.

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Yeah but Sergey Brin says to threaten and abuse them to get better results.

He must be wonderful to be a hostage, I mean employee of.

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Ireland is set to have data centres use more electricity than homes do in a few years.

This is obscene.

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One of my classmates wrote his own PacMan in 1984 or so. On his C64. In assembler. Over a long weekend. Without any “AI” in the code or the act of programming.

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Sure, why not encourage students to offload as much cognition as possible and let a machine do all the learning and thinking for them in an educational setting? So much more efficient!

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If this is true: good.

If this is the opposite of true: the west is so fucked.

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These guys are in love with AI.

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I bought a thing. It has limited use. I don’t know what to do with the thing, but it was really, really expensive, so I a going to try to use it for everything I can because it is a very, very expensive thing.

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Prepare for Meta to suck even more than it already does, and any remaining engineers with experience to bail out because they don’t want to be the ones who constantly have to put out fires the vibecoders started.

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If you’re OK with anything important being written by a vibecoder, ask yourself: would you be happy to live in a building or drive over a bridge designed by a vibeengineer?

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Plus, most of these voice activated devices are by default feminine voices. Causal rudeness and abuse towards voice activated devices can only normalize the same thing towards feminine people.

I can’t find the SF short story I read based on this idea though

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reminds me of intercal

INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as “READ OUT”, “IGNORE”, “FORGET”, and modifiers such as “PLEASE”. This last keyword provides two reasons for the program’s rejection by the compiler: if “PLEASE” does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented.[9]

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“The term “version” has been replaced by “perversion” for correctness.”

:laughing:

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Pre-print paper:

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(short version: they’re good at things that match their training data, but actually reasoning out why that training data is the way it is is a completely different thing that they suck at)

The problem is, without the necessary expertise to evaluate what you’re being told on its merits, you’re likely to evaluate it based solely on vibes: in particular, on the vibes of how it makes you feel about the answers it gave you.

This is the most dangerous thing for anyone who’s vested in being told the truth about reality: the potential for replacing, in your own mind, an accurate picture of reality with an inaccurate but flattering hallucination. Rest assured, if you’re a non-expert who has an idea about theoretical physics, and you’ve been “developing” this idea with a large language model, you most certainly do not have a meritorious theory. In physics in particular, unless you’re actually performing the necessary quantitative calculations to see if the full suite of your predictions is congruent with reality, you haven’t even taken the first step towards formulating a new theory.

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