7 Apr
2025
7 Apr
'25
5 p.m.
a friend asked me whether ChatGPT designed and planned
DOGE ?
The DOGE Cryptocurrency predates the LLM by quite a long time.
The LLM stuff is wild, if you haven't tried the AI stuff it's a game
changer for sure. I can see it leading to job losses. It know it already
has.
It's helped me develop software for a board that allows me to read data
out of a running Williams Pinball Controller (Pinball machine CPU board
from the 90s.) I'm able to SSH in to the Pi side and read any memory
addresses while the pinball machine is running.
Early on I was trying to get it to write me a converter to go from MIDI
file to the Atari Music Composer cartdrige format. While it didn't get it
right, the fact that it kind of got close was wild. Could of worked with
it some more and it probably would have gotten it right.
I watched a friend rapidly make a script to parse a really gnarly web
page. I was complaining that I was having difficulty narrowing down the
data from all the div tags and he delivers a working (and tiny) script in
3 minutes.
Don't underestimate this stuff.
It could and show upend our medical system. Odds are with a good data set
behind it -- it would beat our doctors and could allow everyone to receive
better/more medical analysis. But the AMA probably won't allow it -- to
protect their profits.
It's easy to feel you are un-replacable but honestly most people are. I
remember a pizza chain in Virginia Beach. IT contractor had set up a
system using the BBS FrontDoor software that nightly would take the data
from the point of sale systems at 6 or 7 stores and send it to central
location. He had compiled all the batch files into .COM or .EXE files so
they couldn't be modified, and had set passwords and had some kind of back
door. Had himself locked in for good gig with this odd setup. Low and
behold a friend of mine who had experience with the BBS software, slid in
and replaced it all in a flash one night. Could see the other guy
connecting trying to use his back door but nada. From that point I always
thought "Never get too cocky."
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: Ethan O'Toole