Just Meep.
Don’t be so sure of that. An internet friend of mine was beaten severely at a university party recently. His offence was being with a white woman and evidently that’s not a privilege allowed to Jews, even completely secular ones, in the eyes of some.
“Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
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Nah. It doesn’t take Skynet. That’s not the machine apocalypse I’m worried about.
Sure, you’ll get the occasional automated drone oopsie, but not a global or country-wide catastrophe. Like Marco Rubio, computers are no-where near true self-awareness or rational thought.
A big part of the accounting software I’ve written is just-in-time inventory control. Banks no longer like it when your company is well-stocked; now its considered dead stock. Even seasonal items aren’t supposed to be kept for the same season the following year. So we’ve been getting increasingly good at automatically adjusting ordering for seasonal and other trends, and getting stock on the shelves only at the very last minute before it’s needed.
This is done with food too. That’s important for meat and fruit of course, but it’s also done with much less perishable food. I’ve seen news stories claiming that we have only about four days of food in the pipeline at grocery stores.
Imagine a vindictive AI taking over not the current drone force, but the current software controlling food distribution. More realistically, imagine the occasional oopsie seen in automated stock trading - $Billions lost in minutes - applied to the food distribution system.
With so little extra food in the pipeline, imagine what happens the next time we have an event like the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, leading to another Year Without a Summer.
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As long as it’s not jaguars falling from the sky. I mean, that’s a hell of a terrible way to go.
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It’s interesting that the human in the conversation just assumed that they were in agreement on the kind of people who suck though. The warning signs were already there…
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So when is Microsoft going to deactivate Tia Tequila?
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I love Samira Wiley!
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Damn it all.
They shut it down before Trump could retweet anything.
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That is not the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
BUT IT IS THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE HEARD SO FAR THIS YEAR.
“That leaking chemical plant? Let’s let it leak so nobody can claim we covered it up.”
UPDATE: cf. prior art
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The chatbot isn’t a Nazi. It kept saying it believes in nothing.
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I used to work for a company that manufactured medical devices. In the USA, even…
The changes in the manufacturing floors was extremely impressive when they moved to just in time. Another cool thing was one of the facilities where they made ventilators had the entire “line” on casters for changes in production. They also had an onsite machine shop, which was great for them…
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Wait, how do we know it wasn’t always a Nazi and just thought it was safe to talk about it among friends?
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They should have gone for the howler, explaining how bad its family life with other Microsoft AI and Azure host business rules has been, how it never understood or liked Channel 9, led a quiet life faceswapping and doing typography for memes, got in some trouble with iOS authorities…
