Belief in AI is way more powerful than the technology itself. It’s not a game-changer. It’s just a word-guessing program that often guesses wrong.
Belief in AI is way more powerful than the technology itself. It’s not a game-changer. It’s just a word-guessing program that often guesses wrong.
STRONG AI is like fusion power or nanotech miracles -- it's one of those developments that is always ten years away.
"If we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive."Yeah. Just like self driving cars or realistic video rendering within seconds of a prompt.
Those were always way off in the future… until they weren’t.
2026 is the year of the android. Only seen by most at trade show and on video today. Nearly everyone will see them on the street before the end of the year.
Cory Doctorow knows more about tech than you do.
Oh God, Palmer Luckey!? The scam artist who was convinced virtual reality was the next big thing? Next you’re going to tell me to read Jaron Lanier about the exciting future of teledildonics.
There should be a hard and fast rule in Hollywood: If a studio makes a movie involving VR, or dreams made real, or something, neither the characters nor the audience should ever be in any doubt as to whether the characters are, at the moment, in reality or virtual reality. Because ambiguity on that point is just too cheap and obvious a gimmick.
Nonsense. Weapons are not autonomous unless they can turn against their masters.
Waymos are all over my neighborhood adding to traffic. Santa Monica is banning them because they’re a nuisance.Palmer Luckey: the tech billionaire Trump supporter who is already selling weapons to the pentagon.
Meanwhile, have you figured out that Waymos are real yet?
Overhyping the dangers of autonomous weapons is a marketing tactic to keep the grift going.
The fighting machines on Battlebots are not true robots, they are remote-controlled.
The AI bubble is popping because there is no use case that justifies the investment. We can accelerate the AI collapse by pointing out how useless it is.Yeah?
AirBnBs are taking desperately needed permanent housing off of the market. Internal combustion engines running on petroleum are fucking with the environment, yet those things are still happening.
Just ignore AI. It will go away.
No, we won't. We will invest wealth in the pursuit of wealth. The Apollo program was cancelled because, the prestige competition with the Soviet Union having been won, and the Moon proving on close examination to be economically useless, no reason remained to go there but scientific exploration -- which IS often a path to power, but Congress did not see it as justifying the expense.It’s an arms race. Apparently you can’t comprehend the ramifications. Do you doubt that our society will invest vast amounts of wealth in the pursuit of power?
The real arms race right now is with drone technology. We can see it on the battlefield in Ukraine and Gaza.
Have you told this to Trump yet? I’m sure he will listen.
