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The first computers were astonishingly faster and more accurate than human calculation.

Okay, down vote away. Lemmy has such an ignorant hate boner against AI.

Computers were fucking trash in the 50s. Dumb tech enthusiasts all said the same shit people say about AI today: computers are unreliable, create more problems than they solve, are ham-fisted solutions to problems that require human interaction, etc. here are the HUGE problems computers had that we solved before the 70s.

1. Signed Number Representation

Problem: No standard way to represent negative numbers in binary.

Solution: Two's complement became the standard.

2. Error Detection & Correction

Problem: Bit errors from unreliable hardware.

Solution: Hamming codes, CRC, and other ECC methods.

3. Floating Point Arithmetic

Problem: Inconsistent and error-prone real number math.

Solution: IEEE 754 standardized floating-point formats and behavior.

4. Instruction Set Standardization

Problem: Each computer had its own incompatible instruction set.

Solution: Standardized ISAs like x86 and ARM became dominant.

5. Memory Access and Management

Problem: Memory was slow, small, and expensive.

Solution: Virtual memory, caching, and paging systems.

6. Efficient Algorithms

Problem: Basic operations like sorting were inefficient.

Solution: Research produced efficient algorithms (e.g., Quicksort, Dijkstra’s).

7. Circuit Logic Design

Problem: No formal approach to designing logic circuits.

Solution: Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, and FSMs standardized design.

8. Program Control Flow

Problem: Programs used unstructured jumps and were hard to follow.

Solution: Structured programming and control constructs (if, while, etc.).

9. Character Encoding

Problem: No standard way to represent letters or symbols.

Solution: ASCII and later Unicode standardized text encoding.

10. Programming Languages and Compilation

Problem: Code was written in raw machine or assembly code.

Solution: High-level languages and compilers made programming more accessible.

Its just ignorant to be acting like any of the problems we face with AI won't be sorted just as they were with computers.