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> Edit: If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it w
by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Edit: If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial intelligence.
I think you might be underestimating programmers in the 1950s.
> The first practical compiler was written by Corrado Böhm in 1951 for his PhD thesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_construction#First_compilers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_constructi...
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- xmprt 4y agoI don't think the GP is underestimating programmers in the 1950s but rather commenting on their definition of AI. Back then first order logic was considered AI to a lot of people. I feel like in 50 years, AI models will become so complex and sophisticated that they will look back at us surprised that we ever considered ChatGPT to be an AI since it fails at basic logic tasks like the event ordering example above.