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  • I have a similar theory about star trek. In one scene there was a blurry picture and to sharpen it Ricker said: “Computer implement recursive Algorithm”. That is equivalent to “Computer do something”. So now my theory is that there is an intelligent ship with a genius AI that carries around humans that have regressed to toddler intelligence because the AI does everything for them.

    The ship is basically human daycare with lots of blinking buttons and moving pictures to keep the humans occupied while the ship does the actual (and probably boring) science.

    Starfleet Academy is basically teaching them technobabble and looking great in a uniform while the AIs do the real work.







  • Xerxos@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 month ago

    I wonder what was the trigger for that…

    Like: “Look at those women for the medical trial! They are all straight 10s, we have to get to the bottom of this!” or “My ex got this and she was ugly as hell. I wonder if that is the reason”


  • There are two bubbles. One is the bubble made by every company under the sun trying to shove AI into their product without any sense of why or how. And wallstreet is buying it up.

    Then there is the second bubble. That is the big AI players trying to get AI ready to replace large parts of the workforce. It’s still unclear if that is possible with our current techniques or if we need a scientific breakthrough that might be years or decades away. Still, the tech companies spend money as if that is just around the corner.

    Who knowes if these bubbles burst at the same time?




  • Here is my story:

    There were console outputs after nearly every line. I asked about them: “Oh, I couldn’t get the debugger to work, so I print everything to the console”

    This was everywhere. The whole program was like this. On a standard Linux machine. It wasn’t even remote debugging or something. Just a local C++ program.

    The filenames where written in 8+3. Again, on a modern Linux machine. His answer? “You never know where we’ll port this software to”

    Onto computers that were outdated decades ago? To embedded systems? Of course he had no answer for this except “just in case…”

    I could tell you more, that software was the stuff for nightmares.