So much of our cyberpunk dystopia media is about "what about when the machines are as smart, even smarter than us?"
That's why we were so unprepared for "what about when the machines are dumb as fuck but companies spend billions on convincing the most gullible humans that they're smart?"
That's why we were so unprepared for "what about when the machines are dumb as fuck but companies spend billions on convincing the most gullible humans that they're smart?"
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Chuck Wendig
The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it *simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32.*
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.
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That's why the mechanical Turk was built in 1770 but it would take like another 200 years for us to actually invent a chess playing machine
Replace a bunch of people with broken AI and tell your shareholders you're going to save a bunch of money, rake in bonuses, and by the time they get around to firing you everyone's stuck with the AI process.