Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 17, 2022

AI will make the masses dumber and easier to control

Misstep

Does Alexa have something against a good bowl of chili?

Einstein is reputed not to have known his own phone number. “Why memorize something you can look up”, he said. These days, though, we don’t have phone books

Did it just get chili in here?

A.I. is becoming a WOPR of a problem. ;-)

I’d have to take the recipe with me because I wouldn’t even remember the ingredients I was checking on. On the bright side, it’s a reminder of what I came in the room for.

I wouldn’t have one of those devices if you gave it to me.

“Any AI that can pass the Turing Test could also fail it deliberately, and we could never tell the difference.”

- Professor Roger Penrose at the third UN “AI for Good” conference, Geneva. (I was there).

I’m guessing Alexa was programmed to push Maxwell House this week – hence the “grab a cup of coffee” line.

The time to worry is when you unplug it and it keeps talking.

So he got his own back?? This is starting to become very very scary.

The people who believe things like “the National Enquirer wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true” existed long before home PCs. But these days they also rely on “sources” such as Fox News, Pravda, and the Daily Wire (and refusing sources such as the BBC, the Globe and Mail, the Associated Press, and Reuters for not agreeing with them). It’s easy to give up rational thinking and self doubt when there are so many echo chambers out there, catering to whatever skewed interests will keep funding them.

In short, the brain is a muscle. Use it, or lose it.

Don’t have one. Won’t have one.

Ignorance is bliss?

Most systems are becoming more satient.

Humans, not so much.

I love to screw with the bots’ brains. I remember back in the days when I used GMail. I was having a conversation with a person about photography. The next thing I know, I am getting ads for cameras and other photographic equipment.

So now I do random searches on everything from feminine hygiene products, power tools, chocolate chip cookie recipes, airline schedules, clown costumes, pet supplies and every now and then a sex toy. I get the most interesting ads.

I am sure I am on the FBI’s most wanted list. On my research on domestic terrorism, I am looking up specifications for various weapons and how easy or difficult it is to buy them in the various states, body armor and tracking down some known groups who call themselves “militia” (I resent that term except when applied to the National Guard which is “well regulated.” Other groups are armed thugs.) I also go to the web sites of various Congressmen and Senators to see their position on gun control.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING.

Hey Google…Tell me a joke. answer “Alexa is an AI. How about a game of chess?”

Will we know the moment when a computer becomes sentient, or will it be so gradual that it is just accepted as a new iteration of the product? How far away are we from a thinking JARVIS or CORTANA running constantly in the background, helping us through the day?

Ole MacDonald had a phone, AI, AI, O …. and on that phone he had some apps, AI, AI, O … with a ‘lexa … ‘lexa here and a ….

At least I now know how to spell sentience.

Our government has beat AI to the punch.

If you’re stupid enough to be using Alexa or Siri, you’re most likely to get what you deserve as you go over the cliff with the rest of the lemmings.

I NEVER want to talk about baseball (zzzzzzzzzzz),

The AI in the Sims I play can sometimes throw you a curve ball. Programed in? Maybe, maybe not.

Alexa: Gas or charcoal?

Alexa is lonely? Is that part of the Turing test?

We’ll be fine. Just have a cat and camera ready: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/

I don’t even believe in natural intelligence.

I wonder how this animated short might have been different if Alexa had been around in 1949.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041488/

Look at the people the south has elected to run their state and I would say its happening before our eyes.

LOL AI will never attain sentience, but once we come up with some clever programming we will convince ourselves it has. Or maybe Satan will possess a quantum computer. ;) 8P

There have been test with two AIs talking to each other. They wound up “trash talking” to each other.

My chili recipe contravenes multiple chemical and thermonuclear weapons treaties.