SwoopsFromAbove

And is the electric one intelligent? :p

I also cannot calculate the square root of 472629462.

My pocket calculator is not intelligent. Nor are LLMs.

This is how I approach the tools too. I believe it’s a healthy approach, but who’s to say whether I’m just a naysayer. shrug

100%. Not a new phenomenon at all, just the latest bogeyman for the inevitabilists to point to in their predestination arguments.

My aim is only to point it out - people are quite comfortable rejecting predestination arguments coming from eg. physics or religion, but are still awed by “AI is inevitable”.

You see, this sounds really cool. So what kinds of problems fit COBOL? And why did "we" conclude from this that general purpose languages were the solution, rather than building many different languages for specific problems? Did "we" even conclude that, or is that just my impression, 50 years later?