On 03/04/2025 02:10, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Except that no one ever wrote code like it offered me cause
it was just plain wrong and wouldn't work.
Indeed. As I wrote it has no actual understanding. It just combines
things based on statistics.
It is like Mark V. Shaney, the chatbot t
On Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 at 21:32, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> One shortcoming, that has come up before, is that it is taught to NOT say,
> "I don't know"
Heh, I worked with a guy like that once. Unfortunately, he was in sales, so
field engineering then got to explain that what he'd sold
On 4/2/2025 12:46 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
So, I am working on another fun project on my trusty old TRS-80's.
I need the ability to do multi-line functions which TRS-80 BASIC
does not support.
Actually there was an offical BAS
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
> Not meaning to be pedantic, but, OS-9 ran on the COCO which
> was never called a TRS-80 that I know of. The COCO had the
The service manual for the CoCo 2 is titled :
'Radio Shack Service Manual
TRS-80 (R)
Color Computer 2'
Th
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> So, I am working on another fun project on my trusty old TRS-80's.
> I need the ability to do multi-line functions which TRS-80 BASIC
> does not support.
Actually there was an offical BASIC (meaning sold by Tandy/Radio
Shack)
On 4/2/2025 9:31 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-04-02 6:10 p.m., Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Except that no one ever wrote code like it offered me cause
it was just plain wrong and wouldn't work.
I write code like that all the time:)
What would you write code like that for? It
On 4/2/2025 2:37 PM, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
On 02/04/2025 19:44, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
Think of it like old-school "pair programming" that gives you
a friend in your cube to talk to.
As long as you remember that the "AI" (really not AI, just a
generative large language mo
I did a talk at this year's Trenton Computer Festival on the history of AI.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a book about writing AI code on a Tandy computer from 1981
>
> Commodore did one of these too. Very primitive, but I li
On 4/2/2025 10:06 AM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
On Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 at 21:32, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
One shortcoming, that has come up before, is that it is taught to NOT say,
"I don't know"
Heh, I worked with a guy like that once. Unfortunately, he was in sales, s
On 02/04/2025 19:44, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
Think of it like old-school "pair programming" that gives you
a friend in your cube to talk to.
As long as you remember that the "AI" (really not AI, just a
generative large language model) doesn't actually understand
what it is doing - it is ju
On 4/2/25 10:44, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
>
> "Ancient BASIC dialects" seems like a rather small obscure domain
> and as they say, they're not making any more of them. I'd think
> that if you trained an AI on enough examples, they'd do much better.
> The BASIC language isn't that complex comp
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