StarTrek, Compiler History. and AI "Negative Transfer" Bugs

Certain AI bugs are just like Star Trek's computers' bugs, because LLMs are in many ways an immature architecture with 1960s Software Engineering.

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00:00 Intro
00:17 Star Trek Computers
01:58 Advances in Programming since
03:19 Current AIs are throwbacks to the 1960s
07:15 It will be a block for AGI
08:25 AIs are software, and software skills are relevant still

Sources:

// Considered Harmful
GOTO: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teach...
Global Variables: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/953353...

// Retailer who used BASIC for PoS
https://www.slashgear.com/compusa-to-...

// Microsoft's "Tay" bot learned to be racist and had to be put down
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-3...

// AI's Whack-a-mole equivalents: Negative Transfer and Catastrophic Forgetting
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00069.pdf
https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5/...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08747
https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...
https://arxiv.org/html/2504.01241v1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17209v1
https://openreview.net/forum?id=VrHiF...