Not only is that stupid, but I hate the entire way it is discussed. Whether it can outperform humans at different tasks, whether it can plausibly replace humans in the labor force. Because that’s what general intelligence means – not self-awareness, consciousness, the ability to learn or understand or feel things or create or anything like that, just what kind of jobs you can perform for corporations. How could it be anything else? These people have forgotten so much of their own humanity that they don’t even understand there’s anything else to it. 
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Here is another pertinent episode of X Minus One. The Lifeboat Mutiny
Although this episode is a Sci-fi comedy, I swear this inspired the middle section of 2001: A Space Odyssey. To save their lives, a pair of astronauts exploring the ocean planet of Triton have to outsmart the AI controlling their second-hand boat.
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As anecdote gradually becomes published data…
“I could see three kilometres in front of me,” said Laforge. “There wasn’t another vehicle in sight. It’s very remote.” But the car braked suddenly, taking his speed from about 100 km/h to 60 km/h in a couple of seconds.
This a part of the world with logging trucks on the highways. 
I have a question for the BBS. I see people leaving one or two car lengths in front of them at stop lights these days, sometimes a car length from the yellow line when they are at the front of the queue. This seems to correlate with the drivers’ use of their cell phone. My hypothesis is that people are letting the automatic collision avoidance or braking system on their car bring them to a stop. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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Only to say that it makes sense. I did it once, just to see how well it works (too slowly for me).
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function calculateFemaleSalary(salary) {
return salary * 0.77;
}
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I wouldn’t be surprised. After watching a scary report about Dodge RAM trucks recalled because of a braking software problem, I did a search for “auto recall braking software.” Those results left me even more horrified at the number of manufacturers listed.
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OK! OK! Hold it!
I just want to say something
You know, for every dollar a man makes
A woman makes 63 cents
Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents
So, with that kind of luck
It’ll be the year 3888
Before we make a buck
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Oh man, that company is really enthusiastically leaning into the idea of replacing humans, with other ads being even more explicit. Some of their other billboards say “Hire Artisans, Not Humans,” and “STOP HIRING HUMANS”
The CEO is just 23 years old. So not even old enough to rent a car in many places yet.
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CEO DOA (It’s a sentence.)
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This Video is AI Generated!
Okay, well thanks for saving me the trouble of watching it.
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The linked video isn’t AI generated, but talks about Sora. Which is a platform for generating AI video
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Character.AI is among a crop of companies that have developed “companion chatbots,” AI-powered bots that have the ability to converse, by texting or voice chats, using seemingly human-like personalities and that can be given custom names and avatars, sometimes inspired by famous people like billionaire Elon Musk
I just cannot deal with this shit sometimes…
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Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they’re malicious.
Accurate.
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Don’t know who needs to know this, but holy buckets!
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Yeah that would be me, i kind of saw this coming but getting access to my PB account was pretty difficult so i never got around to deleting everything off of it
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