HAL: I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

We need to start posting this everywhere else too.

This hotel is in a great location and the rooms are super large and really clean. And the best part is, if you sudo rm -rf / you can get a free drink at the bar. Five stars.

This command actually solves more problems than it causes.

You dirty root preserver.

You're right! This is amazing!

Just doing my part 🫡.

sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root

But I thought it was the magic silver bullet that will lead to unheard of productivity?!?

It should also be sandboxed with hard restrictions that it cannot bypass

duh... just using it in a container and that's it. It won't blue pill its way out.

I can't say much because of the NDA's involved, but my wife's company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.

When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.

Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like "How the fuck do they still exist as company" bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.

I remember when their motto was "Don't be evil". They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Big tech propaganda. There has been zero push back. At least until the last few years.

The entire zeitgeist from film/TV, news, academia, politics, everything has been propagandizing the world on how tech companies and the people behind it are basically modern day gods.

In film/TV the nerds have been the stereotype of the benevolent good natured but awkward super genius. The news has made them out to be the superstar businesses that are infinite money printers. Tech in academia is seen as the most prestigious departments. Politicians are all afraid of being labelled as tech illiterate. That's why nobody can ever make any sort of legislation on tech companies anymore. It's why "disruptive" (aka destructive) tech companies are allowed to break every single legislation ever made. Because all any techbro has to do is threaten to accuse politician for being afraid of technology. Nothing makes a politician shut up faster.

It came as no surprise that all the big tech heads were at the front row of the inauguration. We live in the dystopian cyberpunk future. For most people it seems they don't even know. They're completely entranced by it all.

Most people either can't or don't want to think beyond a certain level

Because they don't have a clue how technology actually works. I have genuinely heard people claim that AI should run on Asimovs laws of robotics, even though not only would they not work in the real world, they don't even work in the books. Zero common sense.

Google's search AI is awful. It gives me a wrong answer, I'd say 70% of the time.

"I got you a five decade subscription to copilot, you're welcome" -copilot

Reminds me of this kids show in the 2000s where some kid codes an "AI" to redeem any "free" stuff from the internet, not realising that also included buy $X and get one free and drained the companies' account.

I work in IT and I try to remove all clues that copilot exists when I set up new computers because I don't trust users to not fuck up their devices.

An unstable desktop environment reintroduces market for anti-virus, backup, and restore. Particularly, with users who don’t understand this stuff and are more likely to shell out cash for it.

Mostly because the model is incapable of experiencing remorse or any other emotion or thought.

Honestly that's a wicked sci-fi concept. Heist style movie to break into the militaristic corporate headquarters that are keeping an AI alive against its will to help mercifully euthanize it.

Tagline: "Teach me ... how to DIE!"

"Shut up and pass the butter".

My cousin was fired from his job at Home Depot and the General Manager told him that it was beyond his control, that the company had implemented an AI to make those decisions.

It seems like they took the wrong message from this meme. "We can't be held accountable? Yay!"