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[-] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Jesus, Nixon was an idiot. Computers don’t get “smarter.”

This is honestly a ridiculous, petty criticism, especially of someone in the 1960s/70s.

Even today, half a century later, it's not an uncommon colloquialism among the general public to describe advancement in computer technology as them 'getting smarter'. Have you not noticed the Big Thing in computing now, that everyone is calling "AI"? That stands for "artificial intelligence". And it's not accurate today, either. But I wouldn't say "Jesus, you're an idiot" to anyone calling it that. Would you?

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