[cctalk] Re: AI applied to vintage interests

On 1/16/23 19:42, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: In fact, feed it the object code for a reasonably compatible architecture and ask it to perform translation to another architecture's object code. Certainly within the range of human capability. I don't know if Paul remembers the 1620 SPS coding forms -- one side had the layout for the "1620 Symbolic Programming System"; the reverse had the "1620 Absolute Coding System".  (Yes kids, we really did write object code without an assembler back in those days.) The 1620 was especially suited to this type of coding; absolutely regular machine instruction format (2 digit opcode, 5 digit P field, 5 digit Q field).  All instructions were 12 digits in length--and the machine was variable word-length decimal. Take a hunk of obscure (to us now) assembly and ask ChatGPT what it does. Again, certainly within the range of human capability.   My point is that ChatGPT is a great database inquiry tool with a fancy interface, but the "I" is missing in "AI". --Chuck