The AI haters were right.

Sike!!

     Anyway, AI does accentuate a problem that we have already had online, which is lost historical knowledge. Whenever a new technology like AI breaks through, as in 2022, the internet collectively forgets how something was done pre-ChatGPT and generative AI. We see this with smartphones as well, with the internet largely forgetting you could text to Google, that there were multiple phone OSes, and even dumbphones had apps on them, laptops had built-in modems, non-internet-based comm tech, etc.

      When I was growing up and still today, the answer to most things was "computer," as in "how did they do that 'computer'?" "how did that graphic work 'computer'?" But I never learned what those programs were. I never really learned how people did stuff on the computer, and now with AI, that will be the answer. In 2025, you could probably use AI instead of CGI to make a movie, and more companies will do that, but now, like all the features and tech of the 80s and 2000s, the CGI programs will be lost to time, and I will never know how they did it. Blogs about the pre-AI era will be topical. I dare you to look up a timeline of the history of the smartphone or the internet.

     Are you back? It's very...light, right? Not that detailed, not very in-depth, and the thing is that 30 years ago, it would have needed to be in-depth because it was brand new. We didn't "lose" technology; we just have so much information overload that we can't find it.

     And that's why I'm thankful for AI, because it will help us find things online much faster and better, and hopefully the lost info will resurface. God bless and Tech Talk To You Later!!