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The government probably has super advanced AI at this very moment that we won't see for decades (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] BearJCC@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only a year ago I was doing tech support for DARPA. Yeah, no. they're still running Windows 7. A year prior to that I was doing some design work for the Pentagon and a lot of their computers are still Windows XP. You'd be woefully surprised how much is still running on COBAL

[โ€“] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Government worker here too, can confirm our system runs on COBOL. The wizards who can program it have infinite job security.