When this was released ~10 years ago, everyone knew the series was full of dark humour. Now, we have to ask the all-important question: Why is this particular video quickly starting to look like the only 100% realistic video on how to teach children about computers? Not that we should use this video for this purpose - maybe we should fix the industry instead!
One of the key aspects of this video is how The Globe is about to start teaching them, but The Computer interrupts and starts distracting them with flashy features.
1:48 “Actually, we already have a computer…” “GREAT!”
Oh wow I didn’t know they had sequels
Whenever I see AI being dumb, I think of this.
Colin the Computer basically represents “Stupid AI” even though this was made long before LLMs hit the mainstream!
Clever! I'm very clevery guy! Count to a fifty in the blink of my eye!– like a primitive AI proclaiming itself to be smart, but it doesn’t even know how many errors it’s making. The numbers in that scene are scrambled too, because early LLMs are bad at math.
