Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-26 Thread Windt, W.K.F. van der (Fred)
t: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. Speaking of old predictions: /* By 2005 or so, it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's. -Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize-winning economist in 1998 */ --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.c

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Oujesky
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Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Mike Schwab
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Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Michael Oujesky
ְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on > behalf of Gibney, Dave <03b5261cfd78-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 7:29 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the re

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Gibney, Dave
rom: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on > behalf of Gibney, Dave <03b5261cfd78-dmarc- > requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 7:29 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. > > Fax ma

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
, Dave <03b5261cfd78-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 7:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. Fax machines are still heavily used un medical and legal areas > -Original Message- > From: I

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Gibney, Dave
Fax machines are still heavily used un medical and legal areas > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of zMan > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 4:06 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: A

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread zMan
The FAX machine's impact wasn't exactly tiny. Short-lived, yes. On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:04 PM Dave Beagle < 0525eaef6620-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Picking on Krugman is typical of the right. But, that’s not exactly what > he said. Here’s the context. > > >

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Dave Beagle
Picking on Krugman is typical of the right. But, that’s not exactly what he said. Here’s the context. https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-internet-quote-2013-12?amp Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 5:12 PM, Bob Bridges

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread zMan
> Current AI does not "understand" the information it holds, nor does it have a concept of "truth". So it's like a CEO. Good to know. On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM Joel C. Ewing wrote: > One needs to understand that today's Large Language Model AI tools like > ChatGPT, etc. are essentially

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Joel C. Ewing
One needs to understand that today's Large Language Model AI tools like ChatGPT, etc. are essentially driven by huge statistical databases created from processing huge volumes of digital text using some knowledge of sentence structure and words. Those tools can accept English-language queries

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Bob Bridges
Speaking of old predictions: /* By 2005 or so, it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's. -Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize-winning economist in 1998 */ --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 -Original Message-

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Sorry, the date has been truncated on the left. That should be 11994. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: 22 February 2024 19:42 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. Classification

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Allan Staller
_ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Harper <05bfa0e23abd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. Dave, I was told the same thing 54 years ago whe

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Steve Thompson
Right now there is a move within the US Fed Gov't to convert ALC to Java. They need ALC programmers that know the old style programming because some of this code predates MVS/XA. Just say'n'. Steve Thompson On 2/22/2024 12:29 PM, Dave Beagle wrote: I don’t deny there will be assembler

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Dave Beagle
I don’t deny there will be assembler code running. It’s just that you won’t need assembler programmers. It’s been shrinking for decades as a needed skillset. Explains why hardly anyone teaches it and why assembler coding jobs are few. Also explains why the Assembler listserv is almost dead. Ray

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
ea-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 12:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. AI? More AS! This is on LinkedIn, it's AI generated and you can probably sue them for jaw-dislocation due to excessive la

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
ssion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 11:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. A 5-year prediction is generally safe, because in 5 years people will have forgotten the predictions. Who

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List on behalf of Robley Lutz <05c088572ccb-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 12:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal. I guess my question is, do we expect AI to look at COBOL code, and not

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
רָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Harper <05bfa0e23abd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is t

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Robley Lutz
I guess my question is, do we expect AI to look at COBOL code, and not simply compile it, but analyze the flow, and output optimized Assembler code? Will AI become the highly skilled Assembler programmer that I never became? On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:54 AM Tom Harper <

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Tom Harper
Dave, I was told the same thing 54 years ago when I starting working at CalTrans. Managers would just be able to code in COBOL PROFITS = SALES - EXPENSES and we would all be out of a job. Of course, there are more programmers now than at any time in history. The question of assembler comes

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Dave Beagle
On LinkedIn I searched for AI jobs and got 154,000 hits. I then searched for Assembler jobs and got 6478 hits. As a very smart person said, AI won’t replace workers, people who know AI will replace people who don’t. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 11:08 AM,

Re: [Very much off-topic] Re: AI is the real deal.

2024-02-22 Thread Dave Beagle
Assembler programming will be almost nonexistent in 5 years. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 10:32 AM, Robert Prins <05be6ef5bfea-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: AI? More AS! This is on LinkedIn, it's AI generated and you can probably sue them for