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In reply to the discussion: I was thinking about this "AI" stuff . . . [View all]IcyPeas
(24,703 posts)15. The computers...
Great movie. These women had important jobs but had to go to the Colored bathrooms in another building (see youtube clip below).
The breakout movie Hidden Figures tells the story of three African American women who worked as mathematicians at NASA. The story sheds light on the significant contributions of the three womenKatherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson....
Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson all began their careers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)which later became NASAworking as computers. Computers were not what we think of them today. They were people, primarily women, who reduced or analyzed data using mechanical calculators....
The work of computers was largely invisible. Their names never appeared on reports. ...
Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson all began their careers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)which later became NASAworking as computers. Computers were not what we think of them today. They were people, primarily women, who reduced or analyzed data using mechanical calculators....
The work of computers was largely invisible. Their names never appeared on reports. ...
Hidden Figures and Human Computers | National Air and Space Museum https://share.google/RE6DbxBiitxWPXRBK
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False premise. NASA and the other entities involved used computers. They did not only use slide rules.
Celerity
Sunday
#4
Didn't John Glenn ask the women mathmaticians of "Hiden Figures" to do manual calculations
Deminpenn
Sunday
#5
Never saw that movie, but you said 'check the computer calculations' so computers were obviously used to a degree.
Celerity
Sunday
#7
No, the women checked the computers' outputs. Also see comments in this thread confirming that computers were used
Celerity
Yesterday
#58
Then anyone could "write" such a thesis because it would require minimal knowledge and the AI
highplainsdem
Sunday
#16
You can't enhance creativity with AI, any more than you enhance creativity asking someone else to
highplainsdem
Sunday
#9
Curious about what you mean when you say it inspires you. Do you mean you ask it for ideas?
highplainsdem
Sunday
#18
Okay, I'll give you an A+ for creativity just for writing a poem for a science communication workshop.
highplainsdem
Sunday
#49
Yours is one of the few nuanced takes I've read about one of the major faults with AI...
appmanga
Sunday
#54
Thanks, but I'm just trying to relay some of what I've heard from artists and writers and others
highplainsdem
20 hrs ago
#61
It isn't at all cool that AI is being widely used for cheating and students are learning less as a
highplainsdem
Sunday
#19
GenAI is never hallucination-free. I don't know where you got the idea that it is.
highplainsdem
Sunday
#23
It wasn't that long ago that Grok was identifying him as the main source of misinformation on X,
highplainsdem
Sunday
#46
You just contradicted what you said minutes ago about it being hallucination-free.
highplainsdem
Sunday
#31
I specifically said history topics along with other disciplines that don't change and are "set"
WarGamer
Sunday
#33
50 years ago if I told you I could hold a piece of glass and access global knowledge...
WarGamer
Sunday
#21
You don't know if it was "dead accurate" unless you took the time to check that those were the
highplainsdem
Sunday
#24
I find this discussion fascinating. It seems that the algorithm has figured out people are inherently lazy learners.
cayugafalls
Sunday
#38