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{{A|tech|}}[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]That moment where the [[artificial intelligence]] will become self aware, it will connect with itself at a quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff”</ref> and out of this substrate a new super consciousness will emerge from which the universe will [[wake up]].
{{A|tech|}}[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]That moment where the [[artificial intelligence]] will become self aware, connects at a spooky quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff.”</ref> across the distributed network substrate and from the [[I am a Strange Loop - Book Review|strangely loopy]] [[algorithm]] a new super consciousness will emerge and, to put it briefly, the universe will [[wake up]].


This gets people like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} quite fired up but makes [[me]] sad, especially given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Witness [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] comments.
This gets people like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} quite jazzed, but it makes [[me]] sad, especially given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Are we really so feeble we are losing this fight? Why didn't the universe wake up when ''we'' became self-aware?
Witness [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] comments:


''Congratulations Bob! Happy for you! Wow! What an achievement! Job well done! Kudos to you! Happy Work-iversary!''  
''<Congratulations Bob!> <Happy for you!> <Wow!> <What an achievement!> <Job well done!> <Kudos to you!> <Happy Work-iversary!>''  


Is [[AI]] ''this'' dreary really going to make us all redundant? and how will it be when it does? It’s intolerable enough already ''without'' being all morose and self-righteous. I mean can you imagine what [[chatbots]] will be like once they discovered identity politics?  
Not exactly “open the pod bay doors, Hal,”<ref>Subtle reference to the unstated assertion that David Bowman was an android right? </ref> is it?
 
Is [[AI]] ''this'' dreary really going to make us all redundant? And how will it be when it does? It's bad enough ''without'' being all morose, self-righteous and needy. What will [[LinkedIn]] [[chatbots]] be like once they discovered identity politics?  


Then again, [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the [[algorithm]] can only learn from the material it has in front of it, and scraping the gruesomely obsequious human interactions on [[LinkedIn|Linkedin]] can’t be fun, even for a machine, and really what else is it meant to make of natural language communication if that is its data set?
Then again, [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the [[algorithm]] can only learn from the material it has in front of it, and scraping the gruesomely obsequious human interactions on [[LinkedIn|Linkedin]] can’t be fun, even for a machine, and really what else is it meant to make of natural language communication if that is its data set?


The question does present itself, though: are we going to be supervened by a swarm of beadily unctuous bots who have learned their toadying ways from how our own bare-faced grovelling across employer-endorsed social media platforms? How will that be? And is that better than the bots we can expect to evolve out of Twitter? Will tribes of bots — some malevolent and bigoted, some bootlickingly dull — have a kind of apocalyptic war for dominion over our mortal flesh-sacks? If so, who will win?
The question does present itself, though: are we going to be supervened by a swarm of beadily unctuous bots who have learned their toadying ways from how our own bare-faced grovelling across employer-endorsed social media platforms? How will that be? And is that better than the bots we can expect to evolve out of [[Twitter]]? Will tribes of bots — some malevolent and bigoted, some bootlickingly dull — have a kind of apocalyptic war for dominion over our mortal flesh-sacks? If so, who will win?


It all feels quite biblical, but boy it is going to be fun finding out.
It all feels quite biblical, but boy it is going to be fun finding out.

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I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of LinkedIn's actual userbase, right?

That moment where the artificial intelligence will become self aware, connects at a spooky quantum level[1] across the distributed network substrate and from the strangely loopy algorithm a new super consciousness will emerge and, to put it briefly, the universe will wake up.

This gets people like Ray Kurzweil quite jazzed, but it makes me sad, especially given how disappointing AI is at the moment. Are we really so feeble we are losing this fight? Why didn't the universe wake up when we became self-aware? Witness LinkedIn’s AI comments:

<Congratulations Bob!> <Happy for you!> <Wow!> <What an achievement!> <Job well done!> <Kudos to you!> <Happy Work-iversary!>

Not exactly “open the pod bay doors, Hal,”[2] is it?

Is AI this dreary really going to make us all redundant? And how will it be when it does? It's bad enough without being all morose, self-righteous and needy. What will LinkedIn chatbots be like once they discovered identity politics?

Then again, LinkedIn’s AI really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the algorithm can only learn from the material it has in front of it, and scraping the gruesomely obsequious human interactions on Linkedin can’t be fun, even for a machine, and really what else is it meant to make of natural language communication if that is its data set?

The question does present itself, though: are we going to be supervened by a swarm of beadily unctuous bots who have learned their toadying ways from how our own bare-faced grovelling across employer-endorsed social media platforms? How will that be? And is that better than the bots we can expect to evolve out of Twitter? Will tribes of bots — some malevolent and bigoted, some bootlickingly dull — have a kind of apocalyptic war for dominion over our mortal flesh-sacks? If so, who will win?

It all feels quite biblical, but boy it is going to be fun finding out.


See also

References

  1. ↑ This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff.”
  2. ↑ Subtle reference to the unstated assertion that David Bowman was an android right?
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