So basically, we're heading toward a future where Musk wants to be our wallet, therapist, best friend, bank, baby daddy, entertainment system, and probably our AI pastor, all rolled into one app? 😂
Can’t wait for the future where I have to blink twice to prove I’m not a bot before buying overpriced eggs?
Silly Con - I like it. More people need to use it.
I spent enough time in the Unix world to appreciate the value of lots of small well-tuned apps that do specific things. So, the idea of a "one app to rule them all (and in the darkness bind them)" doesn't appeal to me. At all.
In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov wrote "The Caves of Steel" and "The Naked Sun" in which the "spacers" (the segment of humanity that went to the stars) live in individual isolation surrounded by robots and technology and only interact with other humans via holographic transmissions. Actual contact with others makes them squeamish. We seem headed in that direction. Hence, perhaps, the recent meme about "touching grass".
Zuck looks like Napoleon Dynamite.
We're seeing more and more that Ai confidently delivers wrong answers it thinks the users want to hear. I'm starting to wonder when it'll be responsible for some major disaster.
Is there an error in that FauxNews graphic? Do they mean *plastic* straws? (Or is that the menu mistake? I'm not entirely clear on the concept.)
So much science fiction set longer than the near future now seems to be coming true. The younger generation are being trained to be addicted to social platforms and gamified applications
I think that AI that is implemented in organizations is making mistakes over and over. Rather than one big screwup we will normalize these levels of AI mistakes in society
I loved the Fox News screen grab on so many levels: the puniness of the accomplishments, the clear mistake with the straws, the chevron stuff at the bottom. Where did the News go to?
Even comedies such as “Idiocracy” were far more prescient than anyone realized. Too many comedy sources (like The Onion or John Cleese) have expressed the notion that no one would have found it believable had they gone as far as real life has. We live in surreal times.
I suspect that we’ve normalized incompetence. I was recently reminded of an old saw: “If you put a teaspoon of sewage into a barrel of wine, now you have a barrel of sewage. But if you put a teaspoon (or even a gallon) of wine into a barrel of sewage, you still have a barrel of sewage.” Shit always wins.
I think the News died under the weight of capitalism and corporatism. I’m waiting for the whole system to collapse under incompetence, and then maybe the competent few can step in and try to fix things. (Yeah, I know I’m dreaming, but it’s such a nice dream.)
I haven’t seen Idiocracy but it sounds right on the money. Related to your Cleese line, I heard Sacha Baron Cohen interviewed right before Trump’s first election where he said that if Trump got in, it was the death of comedy as comedians rely on exaggeration Nine years later we now have dozens of public buffoons who unconsciously self parody themselves all the time
Yep, exactly. "Idiocracy" has the tag line, "the parody that became a documentary", and that has become ever more true over time. The President Camacho in the movie is readily identified with our current excuse for a President.
So basically, we're heading toward a future where Musk wants to be our wallet, therapist, best friend, bank, baby daddy, entertainment system, and probably our AI pastor, all rolled into one app? 😂
Can’t wait for the future where I have to blink twice to prove I’m not a bot before buying overpriced eggs?
Silly Con - I like it. More people need to use it.
Happy Tuesday David.
Thanks for reading. Buoyant after 2 days in a 5 year olds world. Which is quite compelling
Spent last evening reading research articles on AI which is starting to get scarier when you start connecting data points.
I spent enough time in the Unix world to appreciate the value of lots of small well-tuned apps that do specific things. So, the idea of a "one app to rule them all (and in the darkness bind them)" doesn't appeal to me. At all.
In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov wrote "The Caves of Steel" and "The Naked Sun" in which the "spacers" (the segment of humanity that went to the stars) live in individual isolation surrounded by robots and technology and only interact with other humans via holographic transmissions. Actual contact with others makes them squeamish. We seem headed in that direction. Hence, perhaps, the recent meme about "touching grass".
Zuck looks like Napoleon Dynamite.
We're seeing more and more that Ai confidently delivers wrong answers it thinks the users want to hear. I'm starting to wonder when it'll be responsible for some major disaster.
Is there an error in that FauxNews graphic? Do they mean *plastic* straws? (Or is that the menu mistake? I'm not entirely clear on the concept.)
So much science fiction set longer than the near future now seems to be coming true. The younger generation are being trained to be addicted to social platforms and gamified applications
I think that AI that is implemented in organizations is making mistakes over and over. Rather than one big screwup we will normalize these levels of AI mistakes in society
I loved the Fox News screen grab on so many levels: the puniness of the accomplishments, the clear mistake with the straws, the chevron stuff at the bottom. Where did the News go to?
Even comedies such as “Idiocracy” were far more prescient than anyone realized. Too many comedy sources (like The Onion or John Cleese) have expressed the notion that no one would have found it believable had they gone as far as real life has. We live in surreal times.
I suspect that we’ve normalized incompetence. I was recently reminded of an old saw: “If you put a teaspoon of sewage into a barrel of wine, now you have a barrel of sewage. But if you put a teaspoon (or even a gallon) of wine into a barrel of sewage, you still have a barrel of sewage.” Shit always wins.
I think the News died under the weight of capitalism and corporatism. I’m waiting for the whole system to collapse under incompetence, and then maybe the competent few can step in and try to fix things. (Yeah, I know I’m dreaming, but it’s such a nice dream.)
I haven’t seen Idiocracy but it sounds right on the money. Related to your Cleese line, I heard Sacha Baron Cohen interviewed right before Trump’s first election where he said that if Trump got in, it was the death of comedy as comedians rely on exaggeration Nine years later we now have dozens of public buffoons who unconsciously self parody themselves all the time
Yep, exactly. "Idiocracy" has the tag line, "the parody that became a documentary", and that has become ever more true over time. The President Camacho in the movie is readily identified with our current excuse for a President.
I’ll have to watch it. Evidently streams on Disney+ here in Canada
I think (hope) you’ll get a kick out of it.
Is Zuckerberg going for the Woody Allen look here? Not sure that's an improvement for his nerdy image! 😂
Kewl + Nerd = Mindless Billionaire
😂