Reposted by UARTman
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable.
Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
![START DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE
* VARIABLES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
* YEARS OF PROGRAMMING yet STILL MORE TO CREATE
* Don't want to write code anyway? We have a field for you: It's called THEORY
* "Well typed programs don't go wrong." "Boolean satisfiability is NP-complete." "Every effectively calculable function is computable." — Statements dreamed up by the utterly inspired
LOOK at what computer scientists deserve your Respect for all this time, with all the circuits and computers we built for them
(This is REAL computer science, done by REAL computer scientists):
[graph of the ARPANET] the Internet
[photo of an FPGA] FPGAs
[screenshot of RocqIDE] proof assistants
They have given us beautiful tools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ypsrm6ue6o5xk5kvbdhwtppm/bafkreifb445jln2aytislayvqayzjf5mp76tpcrwiqpdrkwnrypfz3rd4m)
![Tumblr post by sreegs:
remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:
[Quark face] FEMALES [Quark face]
because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hopmtyvc3dhv62ofiuzii5t7/bafkreiczldwt6qbtkm7oiqe5xnc2b2db5pcrefu3ouoqm62j3otfhzuu4e)
