I mean, so does a spell checker, or a calculator, or a videogame character, etc. The term ‘AI’ is tossed around a lot, to the point that it’s not really distinct from computing in general. The connotation is that sentience distinguishes it from other flavors of 0’s and 1’s following whatever logic they’re designed to do; but as you mentioned that’s not really how it’s used. It bugs me though, cuz if and when we develop the sentient variety, it’s going to be a MAJOR turning point for humanity (good or bad) in par with harnessing fire or electricity… but it’ll be lost on most people cuz they’ll think “we’ve had this for years now…” cuz of LLM chat bots n’ shit.

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The shit we’re calling “AI” these days will never gain sentience. If we had the sci-fi, actual thinky type of AI, the tech would be a LOT more exciting.

It’s like gambling except it’s considered classy instead of trashy.

I wish I could say I had it in me.

“law and order” is just dog whistle for using cops to harass outgroups.

Don’t ever ever forget that the cruelty is the point. They don’t give a fuck about the law.

There are tools to make them give a shit.

Satire sites come close to reality sometimes, but this shit is just straight up happening.

Like, there’s ‘eating the onion’ but these dudes planted an onion and somehow managed to grow an apple.

Corrupt politicians, corrupt law makers, and billionaires get a gram of francium magicked into the center of their brain.

All religious writing becomes saturated with an enzyme that dissolves the paper; hard drives with religious text saved to it become filled with the strongest magnetic material known, destroying their contents and shorting every circuit within; religious carvings are filled in with the missing material, etc. All of it, gone. Attempts to recreate get the francium. Attempts to spread it verbally get a few drops of water in the trachea.

Then it’s straight to NASA to demonstrate the ability and put it to work doing things like manifesting materials in space and otherwise following the guidance of people much smarter than myself.

His name is Blizzard.

Blind Guardian, Wheel Of Time

Hey, congrats India!!

Yeah if someone’s benefitting from a placebo effect, the worst thing you can do is point out that it’s a placebo. If you convince them it won’t work, then you’ve just destroyed the therapeutic effect their brain was giving them. Just shut up and let the placebo do its thing.

Naw it’s more like “we did something we knew would make you incredibly uncomfortable; but now that you’re screaming we’re worried about the neighbors hearing it and we don’t want the cops called on us, so we’ll back off until a more opportune time.”

Getting abusive parent vibes from the language of Sony’s post.

Overbooked. This is the airline industry we’re talking about.

Iirc FlexT9 was ducking (nope, not fixing it this time, rofl) great for the… Galaxy S2?, but then Swype bought em out and it’s been downhill ever since.

So… it’s not that the tech is bad, it’s that it’s being hamstrung somewhere.

Getting “Clash of Clans: Presidential Edition!” vibes from the thumbnail, lol.

Anywho, yay for forgiving stupid sentences for stupid laws. 16 seems a little weak though… why not just scrap the entire law that’s landing prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenses?

That fucking cockroach will probably break a hundred. Evil people have an infuriating tendency to live for an eternity.

We’ll still be reading articles about Trump’s “legal blows” despite ongoing and consistently successful delay tactics.