It was basically one of the best days of my life when I was explaining to my grandmother a project I did at work. I said "I wrote some computer magic to make this job easier". She pointed to my laptop and said "can you show me? Can you explain how this works?" My grandmother was a homemaker wife to a farmer her entire life, and uses the computer simply for email and pictures of my newborn niece.
She might not be able to write a single line, but when I was explaining it at a very high level going through the code, it felt like she was trying to see how the computer would think. She's still of the belief that a computer can think on its own and we're simply asking it to do something for us (like you would a horse on a farm), but she really did want to know how I could teach a computer to do something it didn't know how to do before.
She might not be able to write a single line, but when I was explaining it at a very high level going through the code, it felt like she was trying to see how the computer would think. She's still of the belief that a computer can think on its own and we're simply asking it to do something for us (like you would a horse on a farm), but she really did want to know how I could teach a computer to do something it didn't know how to do before.