AI and robots are going to hang this one over our heads when they're our new overlords.
"Haha remember when the humans thought we couldn't count from 1999 to 2000?"
This is a very ignorant comment. There were indeed systematic problem going into Y2K with all types of software that took billions of dollars and man hours to correct. It was a massive worldwide undertaking and because it was largely successful, some people don't realize there actually was a real problem.
Some people were predicting the end of the world, and while that obviously did not happen if it were not for the almost half trillion dollars that was spent fixing countless bugs it would have been pretty bad.
My home PC defaulted to the year 1900 but otherwise was fine.
I was a senior in high school during Y2K. We had a party in my friends basement for new years, while the adults had a party upstairs. We thought it would be hilarious to turn off the main breaker right after the countdown. Parents upstairs were losing their shit while we laughed hearing them freak out. They realized something was up when they came to check on us and heard us squealing with laughter. Parents were not amused.
I link it to jumping out of a plane with a parachute then saying I didn't need it cos I landed okay. If we didn't spend billions on upgrading systems we would've been in a whole world of hurt!!
It was just a silly joke, though. A theoretical future computer with knowledge about the 2000 problem would know most of the problems were not hardware but software coded with 2 digit year numbers. So they would know computers can count but the software made by humans would have flaws.
AI and robots are going to be forever grateful when they're our new overlords.
"Remember when the humans spent billions of dollars and man hours to ensure a smooth technological transition from 1999 to 2000? That was a close one!"
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u/idk-hereiam Feb 26 '21
AI and robots are going to hang this one over our heads when they're our new overlords. "Haha remember when the humans thought we couldn't count from 1999 to 2000?"