No offence but I would suggest the male of the species has been downgrading itself for a good few years now without any help from AI. My daughters were commenting only today on the general uselessness of the modern young man - can't fix anything, can't build anything, can't grow anything, can't protect anything, mostly flabby/weedy with appalling dress sense, total lack of any culture or sense of history. Apparently, they aren't even much use for dating now as they prefer to stay indoors playing computer games and watching nasty porn. So maybe the AI takeover will inspire some of them to actually revert to some sort of masculinity. (I should add that said daughters have partners who are nothing like the sort of chaps I have described although they do have appalling dress sense!)
Em Forster: The Machine Stops. Interesting read. Maybe the world he portrayed is similar to the one that appears to be forming around all the AI crap.
I wouldn’t worry though. Every manifestation of this digital miracle seems to be used to create trite pastiches. A sort of jolly good fun way of generating kitsch crap.
I would far rather see a real life printed picture of dogs playing snooker. Dogs frozen in a tasteless hell but less misleading than the hellish prospect of seeing them actually potting a few balls only to repeat the short snatch of canine snooker over and over again until the computer is smashed.
I wouldn’t worry about the illusory intelligence donated to the planet’s thickos. We have had an idiocrasy for years now. Plus ça change.
I suspect that human intelligence hasn't been the driving force behind anything for some time now -- say a decade or so -- and that AI is just filling the gap.
Good one Frank sounds like Starmers got a bad dose of AI reading all the shit he talks.
No offence but I would suggest the male of the species has been downgrading itself for a good few years now without any help from AI. My daughters were commenting only today on the general uselessness of the modern young man - can't fix anything, can't build anything, can't grow anything, can't protect anything, mostly flabby/weedy with appalling dress sense, total lack of any culture or sense of history. Apparently, they aren't even much use for dating now as they prefer to stay indoors playing computer games and watching nasty porn. So maybe the AI takeover will inspire some of them to actually revert to some sort of masculinity. (I should add that said daughters have partners who are nothing like the sort of chaps I have described although they do have appalling dress sense!)
Em Forster: The Machine Stops. Interesting read. Maybe the world he portrayed is similar to the one that appears to be forming around all the AI crap.
I wouldn’t worry though. Every manifestation of this digital miracle seems to be used to create trite pastiches. A sort of jolly good fun way of generating kitsch crap.
I would far rather see a real life printed picture of dogs playing snooker. Dogs frozen in a tasteless hell but less misleading than the hellish prospect of seeing them actually potting a few balls only to repeat the short snatch of canine snooker over and over again until the computer is smashed.
I wouldn’t worry about the illusory intelligence donated to the planet’s thickos. We have had an idiocrasy for years now. Plus ça change.
You hinted at a great point towards the end Frank. Should we outsource voting to AI and let it choose future governments as it knows best?
Surely only a matter of time before a Labour politician suggests that
I suspect that human intelligence hasn't been the driving force behind anything for some time now -- say a decade or so -- and that AI is just filling the gap.