I wish "AI" had turned out not like what it is, and not like HAL 9000's creepy red murder eye, but like this friendly blue counterpart SAL 9000 at a university on Earth who just wanted to help them figure out what had happened to the Discovery - ThreadSky

zinniajones.com • 3 days ago

I wish "AI" had turned out not like what it is, and not like HAL 9000's creepy red murder eye, but like this friendly blue counterpart SAL 9000 at a university on Earth who just wanted to help them figure out what had happened to the Discovery

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cheekynuttybuns.bsky.social•3 days ago

If it helps you put your mind at ease

They are calling it something that is just not

It's literally just an advanced search engine, a tool. It never produces something new. It can't think

The naming was done to mislead the public (and most importantly shareholders) into opening the wallets wide

cheekynuttybuns.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also I already love SAL I wish I had one

zinniajones.com•2 days ago

Oh yeah I know it's all a bullshit xerox machine they made to steal real works for real people and then switch up the words to turn it into lies, it's all madness

disorderlyf.bsky.social•2 days ago

TBF it sounds like Hal was REALLY going through some shit trying to keep up those lies and contradictions in his programming. I guess the question then becomes is it still his fault, or his creators' faults? Both even?

zinniajones.com•2 days ago

Props to SAL 9000 for being the most strictly-business "artificial intelligence" computer program; just hanging out in a big filing cabinet in Dr. Chandra's cool university office in Urbana; not being erratic or starting any nonsense; SAL checked HAL's false AE-35 failure warning and was like "No"

zinniajones.com•2 days ago

SAL just wants itself and Dr. Chandra to get more information about HAL so they can solve the anomalies, and is open to having its same higher functions disconnected as was done to HAL to see what happens when it's reconnected and turns back on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2E7sxGAmuo

zacabeb.bsky.social•2 days ago

I just love that thicc proto-iMac on Dr. Chandra's desk.

zinniajones.com•2 days ago

The screensavers in this scene are really something

lizzymatheson.bsky.social•2 days ago

She didn’t have a dog in the fight

melodymp.bsky.social•3 days ago

I wish it had turned out to be like the minds in Iain M Bank's culture novels.

Smartassed damaged punsters with anger and attitude.

Or Martha Well's Murderbot.

We could do with some Murderbot.

hotgirlchristmas.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wish Arthur C Clarke wasn't a creep. He used to be one of my favorite authors.

colinmungo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Will I dream?

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