Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics -- This Physicist is very surprised" video.

Aerospace engineer here - Physicists have every right to scream about this. This is NOTHING more than yet another PR exercise by the AI promoters to claim how they are the supreme technology of our age. I'm Australian but did my degree in America at the U. of Illinois. I was there when the first of the CRAY Supercomputers arrived. They were significant because they finally allowed engineers to run far more complex models for things like aerodynamics and that's been massive to things like air travel, car design and many other aspects of engineering which the general public take for granted these days. I knew one of the team working in the Supercomputing centre. I once asked him what fancy new languages they had developed for the CRAY-2 and CRAY-XMP they had. He told me they still used FORTAN. The real work was in the compilers which translate computer code into the machine language that runs on the CPUs. Their new task was how to make EXISTING CODE run on multiple processors and get the most out having multiple processors. Today we all know multicore processors exist (like the computer you're on right now), but there was a time when they had to work out how to make multi-core processors work and I met one of the team who made them work. So I have been around people who made significant and massive changes to our world as we know it AND IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS NONSENSE ABOUT AI. This is something I am 100% in agreement with Sabine on. The computer engineering people whether is AI or Quantum computing is a lot of hype. Yes its making our world better and I make my living using computers, but computers are NOT going to save humanity from its many woes. They might help but they are NOT our saviors. This is just another PR exercise.
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