Do you suppose Starfleet ever got around to noticing their personnel all seem to have miserable personal lives? Or was that part of the recruitment pitch? “Be Tragic! See The Galaxy!”

“Please state the nature of the veterinary emergency.”

“Come along, Patsy!”

… yes 😔

Like a good pruno, it’s toxic but strong!

Power Supply OEMs: “Hey! We want in on the price gouging too!”

Or it’ll be like buying a used car, 36 monthly payments and your PC will finally be yours!

And that’s what happens when you don’t wear your hardhat ミ☆

“To access this part of the cave, we have to crawl for about 40 meters…”

Nope. Nope. Nope nope.

Ironically the tar monster thought he’d be back next week 😔

Droid “lost cause” nonsense – the separatists were a cat’s paw for Palpatine, and he’s dead now.

Er, right?

I feel like that bottom-right painting needs a sound track:

🎶 Katamari on the Rocks

The thing I enjoy about these sort of devices is when it inspires the manufacturer to actually optimize their software so it will run on the weakest, cheapest hardware. It doesn’t always happen, but sometimes I’m amazed on what people can do with things like < $1 microcontrollers.

Hm? I was agreeing with your 2nd point. I was merely adding to that by pointing out that we’ve only recently begun to recognize non-human intelligence in species like crows (tool use), cetaceans (language), higher primates (tool use, language, and social organization); which leaves me concerned that, if an AI were to “emerge” that was very different than human intelligence, we’d likely fail to notice it, potentially cutting off an otherwise promising development path.

Those are two separate questions, I think.

1. “You think we won’t be able to use AI” – If there is some day actual artificial intelligence, I have no idea if humans can “use” it.
2. “we can’t recognize intelligence?” – I think you can make the case that historically we haven’t been great about recognizing non-human intelligence.

What I am saying is that if we ever invent an actual AGI, unless it thinks and, more importantly, speaks in a way we recognize, we won’t even realize what we invented.

2 - It doesn’t matter at all, intelligence doesn’t need to think like us.

Agreed, but look at the history of how humans have thought about the presumed intelligence (or lack of it) in animals; we seem to be bad at recognizing intelligence that doesn’t mirror our own.

It seemed… logical at the time!

Where is the big bright beautiful tomorrow that we were promised?

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