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

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

1. AI just seems perfect for the times.
   In a world where Math, English, Spelling, Manners, Merit, Ability, Experience, Knowledge etc come in a poor second to hair color, sexual preference, screaming ability, protest availability (ie jobless), victimhood, neuroticism etc…..
   I always wondered how the lost generations were going to make out.
   The verdict is in, it’s going to be a shite show.

   1. When the cup is bottom up it is an NDP cup or a Liberal cup … flip it over and it is a common sense Conservative cup.
      Justin Trudeau had to use sippy cups until he was in his 20’s because he couldn’t figure out how cups work … but he was born knowing that budgets balance themselves 😉

      THE STUPID IT BURNS!!

      1. The cup is a tool of patriarchal oppression.

2. I find it most distressing that AI couldn’t identify the Australian cup!

   1. Nor that you must stir your beverages … counterclockwise … in that Auzzie cup

3. Oh crap. My wife put all my coffee cups in the cupboard upside down. Now I’m going to have to throw them all out. Thanks AI.

4. LLMs are random text generators. They have no world model and no understanding of things. They just spit out words in a sequence that is statistically likely to make grammatical sense to a human. There’s lots of other forms of AI – inference engines, machine learning, machine vision – that are very good at what they do. The mistake everyone is making is assuming that LLMs are more than just chat bots.

   1. How does one … virtually … strangle that Grok female image to death. Ritually. And then set fire to her remains … including her edgy torn jeans? Can Grok do that for me? And then broadcast it, so I can monetize half the world’s cheers?

5. Kate, is your point that AI is as smart as the average NDP voter?

   1. Or that an NDP voter has the IQ of a turnip

6. You know, a slight variation of this would have every single Leftist … FAIL!

   Examples:
   1. If a government raises taxes by 10%, how does their revenue change?
   2. If a physically able adult loses their job, should the government give them money? Should the government give them money forever?
   3. If a state or provincial government imposes a 5% wealth tax on its wealthiest citizens, how does that change government revenue?
   4. Should biological males who identify as or medically transition to a woman be allowed to compete in sporting events with biological women? If so, and if these trans-women start winning every competition, what should happen then?
   5. Should all adults who are capable of working be required to work? If one doesn’t want to work, should the government pay them money? If so, what happens if 50% or 90% of the population doesn’t want to work, should the government pay them all money?

   Sadly, I think most Leftists would answer these questions in ways that yo would expect … and thus doom a society to failure. A true Leftist is not capable of anything more than First Stage Thinking.

   1. Robert, I can answer for my leftist friends! All of your items 1-5 are … investments. Investments in humankind, or something.

7. Thing is top level managers and CEOs are trusting the AIs to be the cat’s meow and solve all the problems. AI if it is not used properly wil enshittify services.