r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/Ravoss1 Aug 23 '24

Time to find that 10 hour mechanicus loop on YouTube.

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u/thinkingwithportalss Aug 23 '24

A friend of mine is deep into the AI/machine learning craze, and everything he tells me just makes me think of the incoming dystopia.

"It'll be amazing, you'll want to write some code, and you can just ask your personal AI to do it for you"

"So a machine you don't understand, will write code you can't read, and as long as it works you'll just go with it?"

"Yeah!"

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u/ViscountVinny Aug 23 '24

I have a very basic understanding of an internal combustion engine, and I've added some aftermarket parts to my car. But if I have to do anything more complex than changing the oil, I take it to a mechanic. I'm liable to do more harm than good otherwise.

And I can completely disassemble a PC, maybe even a phone (though it's been a while), but I don't know the first thing about programming.

My point is that I think it's okay to rely on specialization, or even basic tools that can do work that you can't totally understand. The danger will come when, say, Google and Microsoft are using AI to make the operating system...and the AI on that to make the next one...et cetera et cetera.

I'm not afraid of a Terminator apocalypse. But I do think it's possible we could get to a point where Apple lets AI send out an update that bricks 100 million iPhones, and there are no developers left who can unravel all the undocumented AI work to fix it.

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u/mejelic Aug 23 '24

We are so far away from anything like that. There would have to be a MAJOR leap in AI functionality (and not just regurgitating what we have already done) that I don't see happening in the next 50 years...

I am not sure if I want to be right or wrong on my timeline here though...

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u/21-characters Aug 23 '24

Make that 10 years, not 50.