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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’ (fortune.com)
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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[New comment instead of editing the old so that you see it]

I managed to find a video of a game loading back in the day. That's what it sounded like when you loaded a program and it's exactly what they'd play on the TV so you could create your tape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you very much for the effort! I also searched for text or video, but found none.

I understand now what you previously meant, streaming code via TV.

That’s what it sounded like when you loaded a program and it’s exactly what they’d play on the TV so you could create your tape.

Now I have a new confusion: Why would they let the speaker play the bits being processed? It surely was technically possible to load a program into memory without sending anything to the speaker. Or wasn't it, and it was a technical necessity? Or was it an artistic choice?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume it was because they used ordinary tape recorders, that people would otherwise use as dictaphones or to play music. I guess there wasn't a way to transfer the data silently because the technology was designed to play sound? We had to wait for the floppy disk for silent-ish loading. Ish because they click-clacked a lot, but that was moving parts rather than the code itself.

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