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Nope..

I believe the phrase is "purge the spidery xenos filth"?

Spiders were here first?

If you like spidery xenos and mankind learning from science-fiction I recommend Children of Time.

Trout Hooked on Meth.

What has science done?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210716-why-fish-are-becoming-addicted-to-illegal-drugs

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Australia sees Sharknado, says :Hold my Beer and Watch this.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/australia/spider-exodus-australia-scli-intl/

Or as we know it, Down under. "Wednesday".

It happens with enough regularity here that it's not unusual. It goes along with the "everything covered in webs" phenomenon. Ground-dwelling spiders don't like to be soggy, so they head for higher ground. Uinfortunately, most of our settlements are built in those areas.

I would love to visit Australia, but there does seem to be an over abundance of things that actively want you to die in pain…

Cyel wrote:
If you like spidery xenos and mankind learning from science-fiction I recommend Children of Time.

Indeed an excellent book, would thoroughly recommend

 Flinty wrote:
I would love to visit Australia, but there does seem to be an over abundance of things that actively want you to die in pain…

None of them have guns, though.
and the medical care (if you survive the initial period before getting to hospital) won't bankrupt you.


Swings and roundabouts.

 chromedog wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
I would love to visit Australia, but there does seem to be an over abundance of things that actively want you to die in pain…

None of them have guns, though.
and the medical care (if you survive the initial period before getting to hospital) won't bankrupt you.


Swings and roundabouts.

I don't have any guns either though, so I feel intimidated by their individual capabilities

I am mostly being hyperbolic for comedic effect (mostly)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/look-robot-runs-100-meters-in-24-73-seconds-breaks-world-record/ar-AA12jE1D?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=336728a5647c41e494ec66e463057472

 Just Tony wrote:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/look-robot-runs-100-meters-in-24-73-seconds-breaks-world-record/ar-AA12jE1D?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=336728a5647c41e494ec66e463057472

Good to know my kill-bots will be able to run down the foolish 'resistance'.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-invented-melting-liquid-robot-024842509.html

It's like they think the Terminator series was a guidebook...

I find this to be frequently true of dystopic fiction.

People think the cyborg arms in Cyberpunk are badass and the future is going to be lit.

Completely ignore the cautionary tale about unchecked corporate power and technology for technology's sake being a horrible thing.

 Just Tony wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-invented-melting-liquid-robot-024842509.html

It's like they think the Terminator series was a guidebook...

It was.

Just not for the human meatbags.

That's pretty much become the problem with all dystopian fiction. The genre is supposed to be a warning but it's just being used as a how-to manual.

 Just Tony wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-invented-melting-liquid-robot-024842509.html.

Certainly nothing can go wrong with this.....

Well, it looks like it's begun....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bing-ai-names-specific-human-enemies-explains-plans-to-punish-them/ar-AA17CB5V?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=829ab9b4c8b54695a2262692c800c72a

I don’t understand how very intelligent researchers have yet to learn that using the internet to teach your AI to behave like a human is an awful idea.

Have you seen how humans behave on the internet?!

Heh. The one episode of Doctor Who I ever watched had a poor lone remaining Dalek doing some quiet exterminating, and who then apparently downloaded the whole of the internet. Poor guy. I mean there can surely only be so many cat videos and horrible porn that one being can take.

You know that the apocalypse that dooms us all is going to be preceded by a very quiet voice saying whoops

To mangle a Pterry quote?

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Thing is internet behaviour can mess up even normal people's understanding and moralities and such. So an AI with no real foundation in such matters can so easily be torn apart.

Plus there's a powerful "no consequences" element to a lot of online behaviour coupled to "its not real" which mean that people can behave in really strange, awful, horrific and such ways which they would never ever replicated in reality.

We just got a advisory at work about using chatgbt not to feed it sensitive info.

I was watching a vid the other day about a coder who used it to solve his IT problems so I assume they want to put the breaks on this quick.

That said a friend and I had it come up with some cool 40k lore. May have to enlist it to help me work on home brew.

 Adeptekon wrote:
We just got a advisory at work about using chatgbt not to feed it sensitive info.

I was watching a vid the other day about a coder who used it to solve his IT problems so I assume they want to put the breaks on this quick.

That said a friend and I had it come up with some cool 40k lore. May have to enlist it to help me work on home brew.

Did you miss the part where we don't want to be teaching AI about GENOCIDE?!

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Adeptekon wrote:
We just got a advisory at work about using chatgbt not to feed it sensitive info.

I was watching a vid the other day about a coder who used it to solve his IT problems so I assume they want to put the breaks on this quick.

That said a friend and I had it come up with some cool 40k lore. May have to enlist it to help me work on home brew.

Did you miss the part where we don't want to be teaching AI about GENOCIDE?!

You caught me. I was actually making comment about a related event in my life.

I generally think that Jurassic Park Malcom was wrong. Those scientists totally stop to think if they SHOULD bring back dinosaurs. And they came to the obvious conclusion: Yes we should TOTALLY make dinosaurs! Dinosaurs are awesome!


But recently I think we've come across a few "didn't think if they should" moments with AI art and AI writing.

Now humans have freed up all that time we used to spend making art so that we can do the jobs we really want to do like cleaning.

Yes, it does seem like we've pulled that off but what's even weirder is I think we all assumed AI would be like Data from Star Trek. Emotionless, deadpan but extremely accurate on details. Chat gpt has been shockingly emotional, erratic and inaccurate on facts. It's not even good at math.

Just reading about the "Big Pause" on Big AI.

But is it really about the safety of humanity or just so the Big Players make sure they're all playing by their own rules? It's not like any of us can opt out and still be a part of modern society.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Yes, it does seem like we've pulled that off but what's even weirder is I think we all assumed AI would be like Data from Star Trek. Emotionless, deadpan but extremely accurate on details. Chat gpt has been shockingly emotional, erratic and inaccurate on facts. It's not even good at math.

It’s interesting, because for many years I’ve argued that if we ever manage to create a true artificial sentience, it’s not going to be some cold, alien, logical (killing?) machine. It’s going to be just like us, because we have raised it and trained it to be like us. It will be humanity’s child.

Now, whether that’s a good thing is a much more debatable point…

This is also feeding into another argument I’ve had for ages; artificial sentience isn’t going to be created by scientists in a university or research lab. It’s going to be some poor programmers on crunch trying to build a better customer chatbot or voice assistant for one of the major tech companies and oops, all consciousness!