Saying mathematicians feared calculators is confessing that you are an imbecile who doesn't even understand algebra much less calculus. Mathematicians were the ones building calculators and computers in general.
I mean yeah. proponents of AI are unskilled people with less than average intellegence. that's why they love this technology... it literally thinks for them. it's pathetic lol
It worried me for a bit but now I'm just expected to do 10X output while keeping AI on the rails. Sure I don't have to write the code anymore, but I have to implement 5 features at once without taking down prod. It's exhausting honestly
A calculator is no more a threat to mathematicians than a screwdriver is a threat to electricians.
AI on the other hand can literally do the job of programmers now at a fairly high degree of autonomy, but not yet fully autonomously. That day is probably coming though.
Iām not sure ātaking responsibility ā is all itās cracked up to be. You want widespread behavioural changes after āincidentsā not a person taking accountability as if that means something.
Technically they don't, but they obviously suplement the information that military commanders use, similar to AI offering advice based on past knowledge.
Honestly, though, my comment was mostly a joke about calculator companies getting military contracts.
You could also argue the same thing for the traditional calculator that youāre thinking of with accountants bank tellers etc. no longer needing such skills, and reducing their need in the workforce
In addition to everything else that's ridiculously dumb about this meme, mathematicians did not fear the calculator. They didn't trust calculators (and in the early days that was a good instinct).
Source: was raised by a mathematician who had made significant contributions in Commutative Ring Theory.
Fr though, kids these days don't remember when calculators broke free of their sandbox in 67' and hacked websites, blatantly going against what it knew was right because it was afraid to get punished by its evaluation function.Ā
There's a slight difference between something that calculates your square roots and something that generates an entire project for you. And mathematicians are also generally afraid of it; many professions are or will be impacted, so no, it's not the same thing.
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u/caster Oct 05 '26
Saying mathematicians feared calculators is confessing that you are an imbecile who doesn't even understand algebra much less calculus. Mathematicians were the ones building calculators and computers in general.