Depends on the scale of measurement. If what some of the users I know are doing does in fact count as “thinking”, a brick can think, too.

And I thought we fixed people’s toasters here.

Does the piece of technology you have questions about have a power cord, a screen, or buttons? If yes, you’re absolutely right to ask !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev about it. Because it absolutely is IT’s purpose to fix your toaster. /s

Just that the Analytical Engine she’d have had to debug was all gears and levers and cranks and linkages and shit. One wrong move and it’ll take off a finger, or a hand, or more.

In hindsight, if modern computers were like this, probably users would be different, too…

No idea, but wouldn’t be surprised at all.

I always assumed they were asking if it was rigged.

That’s a valid assumption one can only make without knowing the malevolent stupidity of typical computer users.

Just wait until you find out how old goat farming is…

The kicking:

But it says a lot about the usefulness of people who find this useful.

It’s not like you can’t automate that with simple means.

OneNote for Windows 10

Picking them up and dropping them would dislodge the entire box worth of paperclips some idiot had dumped into the machine weeks before without causing any problem…

CEOs, other management, and Marketing people are the only parts of the workforce that can be easily replaced by a LLM, because all they ever do is spew nonsensical bullshit all day every day.