Many users are exploring how to use new technologies on older systems that, in theory, do not support them. It may seem out of place, but it generates lessons and shows us that anything can become possible. On this subject, there is a user who has ran ChatGPT on an IBM 5155released… 36 years ago!
Currently, ChatGPT technology is on everyone’s lips for its capabilities and is an interesting tool. It allows you to explore a lot and learn a lot, while helping you improve. Exploring different uses and all of its capabilities is something many users around the world are already doing.
Running on a 36 year old computer
It must be said that AI is a great innovation that can help people a lot. At the same time, he is presented as a double-edged sword, because, as usual, he also has negative aspects. Technology can always be used for positive purposes and also for negative purposes.
User “yeokm1” explored the use of artificial intelligence of ChatGPT on a computer 36 years ago. The IBM 5155 uses an Intel 8088 processor clocked at 4.77 MHz and has 256 KB of RAM. We are talking about very limited resources, but it is not just this limitation and it is that use MS-DOSwhich does not support network functions.
Basically, so you can figure it out, Microsoft’s operating system does not support internet connection. So they had to figure out how to use this new technology.
To solve the problem, he had to write a ChatGPT application for DOS using the Visual Studio code editor. It parses the JSON output from the OpenAI technology API.
After fixing this problem, the IBM5 5155 was able to communicate with ChatGPT without problems. A great success, no doubt, which shows us that making this tool work is possible no matter what.
We see how he says “I’m a laptop IMB 5155” to which ChatGPT tells him his story. Intelligence even tells him that he has some interesting stories about it since his debut.
Although all this may seem minor, it is really something very important. First, that we can run this technology on any system without problems. It also shows us the ingenuity of some people, who try different things that many would not think of.
AI won’t make you dinner
We need to be clear that any AI is a tool that can be used as a guide or to rely on at some point. The reality is that day to day we will not have major changes due to this technology. Maybe if it affects the work area more, but in the end, waiters, geroculturists, restockers and other workers would be needed.
We will see new fields of highly skilled labour. It’s normal, technology generates new specific jobs for people who have been trained in this field. There are many new jobs that have been created over the past decade and those that remain to be created.
But, we must not forget that not everything can be automated or technologized, so to speak. There are fields that will be destroyed or replaced, but the basics will remain the same.
