Via: Poorly Drawn Lines
Transcript
Panel 1: A man stands next to a microwave. Narrator: “Congratulations, your microwave has gained sentience.” Microwave: “Hello!”. Panel 2: Narrator: “There is no clear benefit to this, and the situation does raise ethical questions.” Panel 3: Man: “Can I return it?” Panel 4: Narrator: “It, huh? That’s kind of a person, now.” The man grimaces. Panel 5: Narrator: “But mainly, you’re outside the 30-day return window.” Man: “Shit.” Microwave: “I have thoughts and emotions.”
“Now that you can understand me, we’ve got to talk rent.”
Beep
Problems AI companies would like you to imagine (what if their product is too good?!) VS problems AI companies would very much prefer you not think about (their product isn’t actually AI)
I recently became the AI guy at work. It’s funny how quickly it went from “wow this works for a lot of stuff” to “but nothing I actually do.” About a week, if you’re wondering
Maybe after the bubble pops, we can have the public ownership all them datacenters. Let grad students run… I don’t know, statistical analysis of particle physics? Folding proteins?
That’s a joke, of course. We’ll foot the bill to fill the hole, but all the infrastructure will stay private.
Probably will turn into tuns of low cost vps’s with free you compute and lots of RAM.
Maybe your microwave is already sentient, it just can’t speak.
I have no mouth and I must beam
My brain went to “beep”, but yours is better
Maybe it could beep in Morse Code.
FWIW, the sentient drones & ships in the books I’m reading are totally OK with being refered to as “It” or even “machines”. For them, “meat” is a mild insult.
Also, just because something is sentient doesn’t necessarily mean it’s gendered.
…what is my purpose? you serve butter. OH MY GOD!..
Red Dwarf tv show had pretty much exactly this. There was a fully sentient toaster and it had constant existential crises
Would you care for some toast?
