All AI companions are literally binary. amirite?

All programs are literally binary. The ENTIRE computer science field boils down to 0 and 1s

by judahstiedemann 1 day ago

To be fair, there are a lot of 1s and 0s in there.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It's even wilder when you realize that its not actually numbers, but gates allowing electric current to flow

by judahstiedemann 1 day ago

That's at the lowest level, in between human readable code and all the tiny transistors it does get converted into 1s and 0s

by General_Program6030 1 day ago

I literally said that.

by judahstiedemann 1 day ago

Sometimes it's not even current flowing, but just some electrons stuffed in some little bitty cells they don't really want to be in

by Anonymous 1 day ago

GET ME OUT OF HERE!

by judahstiedemann 1 day ago

No. Stay.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

(And that is the ELI5 for NAND degradation and bit rot)

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Man, i took the free cpurse that teaches how to make a pc from strach with the gates. That was NOT an easy concept to grasp lol

by judahstiedemann 1 day ago

Until somebody comes out with a quantum computing AI.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

What is the significance of that realization? Is that your way of saying "so they're not actually that amazing"? I am unimpressed. Every digital device is "literally binary", by definition. Personal computers, smartphones, TVs, digital watches, calculators, even some parts of your microwave, … But it doesn't have to be that way inherently. Binary is just one of a many possible number systems, and what people decided would be an efficient way to represent the possible states of a transistor.

by doylejesus 1 day ago

You should have said "universal function approximators".

by doylejesus 1 day ago

are you trying to make a gender joke about AI? bc everything digital is binary. absolutely all of machine language comes down to just the 0 and 1.

by Anonymous 1 day ago