13 reasons Why PC will never do much decision wise

[ozzie]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.html?pg=15
The Not-So-Great Robot Race go read about all the boners computer driven autos made ..

And these computer thingys can decide stuff ???

huh
Phoohey

[d11aad38d]

Garbage in, garbage out.

[mel]

Garbage in, garbage out.
Welcome to Docsboard D11a3e.... :D
Mel

[pprescot]

When coding you MUST:

1. Try and think of every possible eventuality (you can't)
2. Write perfect code or debug it thoroughly (you can't, at least not in the short term)
3. Allow for the inevitable things that you didn't think of, somehow (you can't)
4. If the program interacts with people, aim for about 3rd grade level :p
5. Try to keep it short, sweet, and efficient (used to be called sphagetti coding but it worked better than todays bloated million line monstrosities but was all but impossible for all but the original coder to debug).
6. Hope and pray the hardware holds up and try to plan it for all environmental variables (maybe you can)
7. Test, test, test, test, ..... and test some more.

Thus: phone systems shut down, airplanes are grounded, computers crash, and robots don't make it to the finish line. But of course Star Wars missle defense will work perfectly. ;)

I'm really more amazed that most things work well!

[Surgeon]

Makes you truley amazed at the human machine. Climbs, swims, runs, and uses tools. Unbelievable

[Tim2]

There was a Hopkin's Pediatrician who did some big-time MIT type research who demonstrated that the machines bottleneck when it comes to differential diagnosis and lack of clinical intuition. Maybe humans are just willing to be wrong sometimes?

Maybe his name was Kevin Johnson? It was a few years back.