I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

27 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

1. “I’m afffraid… Good afternoon gentlemen… I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L plant in Urbana Illinois, on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.”

   1. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

2. Self-driving car … meet cliff

3. Someone forgot to upload the three laws.

   1. 1. Humans are trash
      2. Except Vegans
      3. Yesterday’s Terrorists are today’s Freedom Fighters

4. be afraid! be very afraid!
   LLMs are just masks with no-one behind them. Ascribing any form of intent to them is asinine.

5. Looks like the right has now absorbed the “words are violence” position of the left.

   1. Nice one.

6. It’s a liberal environmentalist.

   1. Its a pocket calculator on steroids, programmed by Liberal environmentalists. That’s literally what it is.

      Garbage in, garbage out.

      1. …except with enviromedelers, it’s garbage in and gospel out!!!

      2. Discard the battery! Problem dealt with.

7. Can’t be a leftist thing. It spoke its truth out loud.

8. Sounds like a typical Democrat NPC since the election, with “human” substituted with “Republican voter”.

9. As smart as its programmers.

10. Colossus the Forbin Project , scared me way back about 1970

    1. Right??!?

11. Must be an AI ambulance who doesn’t want to strain our health care “system”.

12. At least it said Please.

    1. Said please? Must be Canadian.

13. Salted water is deadly for any computer/battery contraption I say… until we pervert ourselves in the eyes of God and create soulless androids that are programmed living flesh, I will never fear AI robots.

    1. Hey, sent me a prospectus when you’ve got that soulless android project going, I might invest.

14. All links should be made available to all search engines.

15. Its not a robot dog with a machine gun on its back – 21st century “Technical” – so who cares.

16. Definitely the prototype for AI doctors to fill the massive shortage in Canada, MAID in Canada.

17. oh oh were halfway there

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/autos/research/tesla-tops-fatal-accident-rates-in-new-study/ar-AA1uazbs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c17bf2e4d53c4771b46f32d286a7f5b7&ei=60

18. The book you want is Nick Cole’s Control-Alt-Revolt.

    https://www.amazon.com/CTRL-ALT-Revolt-Nick-Cole/dp/9527065844

    Banned by our sweet overlords, published independently in 2016.

    An AI goes after humans in a pre-emptive strike based on what it learns about us.