I went to it opening day and loved it. Nostalgia bait, sure. But it's FUN nostalgia bait. I do think it's a good movie if you were ever a fan of Looney Toons. I couldn't say what anyone would think if they weren't, because that shit was essential viewing when I was a kid and is basically embedded in my DNA.

Did you even watch the movie? THEY'RE THE SAME TEAM!

Sometimes, nostalgia bait works, especially when it's nostalgia that hasn't been strip-mined to near death over the last forty plus years. I got a real kick out of all the references to old looney toons tropes and even the specific references to Coyote's particular ACME purchases over the run of his cartoons. Lots of background references to the old production teams too, like the name of the law firm being the old creators' names. It's just a ton of fun and made good on a lot of the old cartoon vibes.

The thing is, these tech companies that are pushing AI have been on an ever increasing quest to create the next worst thing since before the social networking thing exploded into becoming a political cancer for the entire world. And there have been just as many people stating the lack of moral or ethical direction for these companies since around that same time. I'm not sure why anyone thought that a whole slew of morally foggy degenerates were going to suddenly develop a moral compass when it came to their next plan to usurp all of society. When you spend a decade telling the world that you're creating the technology that will replace all work without providing any means whatsoever to deal with the consequences, it's hard to be surprised when there are negative consequences. The only real surprise is that some of the big players in the game aren't happy that the consequences are hitting them, rather than just slamming into the rest of humanity while they sit in their happy place directing the carnage.

In all honesty, if there's any truth to it, it's most likely a return to the old "mutually assured destruction" thing. Where the threat isn't so much that we'll take out the enemy. It's that if the enemy gets too big for their britches, we'll take out everybody, including ourselves. Hurrah for tribalistic bullshit on a grander scale. God damn we're a dumbass species.

Mostly by humans being stupid enough to tie all our infrastructure to internet accessible controls, then either outright handing off the control of those infrastructure devices to the AIs, or letting the AIs loose to play on the internet and then oopsing after they take out some major piece of critical equipment.

AI alone isn't dangerous, if we weren't fucking stupid about tying every single part of our lives, big or small, to a single network, that just happens to be the single network all the AI companies are claiming their toys are escaping to when they get naughty. Except, humans made those decisions, and the decisions that hooked critical infrastructure to that network, so ultimately, we're just using AI to make ourselves more efficient at killing ourselves.

None of them identified with the heroes. They all seem hellbent on being the villains, or seeing the villains as the heroes.

These people also said when the AI ball first really started rolling faster that there was a 1/3rd chance that AI could wipe us out, but they were willing to take that chance. They see themselves as some sort of overlords for humanity, making decisions for all of us based completely on whether or not they stand to make more profit from those decisions. And a 1/3rd chance that humanity is lost hanging in the balance is just a shrug and, oh well. They may not be outright evil, but their indifference to their own direction sure feels like it from the outside.

We have to reinforce the idea that all men are always creeps at all times, and all women are innocent victims of the creeps at all times, always, forever and ever, or the terrorists have already won. I dunno, man. The messaging from almost every direction the last decade or so seems customed designed to make sure we all view each other in the worst possible light. This post is very much a part of that trend.

I think it's far more likely people buying these glasses are doing it to film their mundane lives and post them up as if they were fascinating. One of my older friends has taken to auto-posting his commute via some dashboard cam on his car. The sad part is? He has subscribers that watch every video. How have we hit a point where someone is so bored that they'll watch someone else's commute every single day? Like, that's their excitement? Their entertainment? WTF?

The few humans really pushing the AI buildout are doing so with the belief that they can switch the economy from one that relies on actual work being done, products being created, distributed, and sold to consumers who are also employees to keep the money flowing to an economy where information passes back and forth between their AI systems and somehow, the money continues to flow toward them. Not a damned one of them has the foresight to see that they're creating their own demise by attempting to engineer the demise of the vast majority of the population for their benefit. When they run out of people to exploit, where is the additional money going to come from? It's not like each company passing big dollar signs around digitally is going to actually create wealth. It'll just be a wealth circle-jerk hoisted on a digital pike, flying roughly over the remains of the human race.

AI itself, even in its current form, has never been the problem. It's the owners pretending that they're doing us a favor with it while plotting how to rid themselves of us with it that are the problem.

No. Natalie Portman naked and petrified you incessant newb.

I believe this is the point where the investors get told, "It's OK. We're gonna make it up in volume."

The kids they pay to run and get lunch and sometimes comment on new features?

So, this kid's parents just let him sit for eight hours a day with a laptop strapped to him doing whatever? Even if you're using it to learn something important, there should be enough supervision to promote some breaks. Hell's bells, I've been computin' since I was twelve, am currently in my mid fifties, and can't remember ever sitting at a computer for more than an hour at a time without getting up to stretch and walk around a bit, or swap laundry, or check some baking, or walk a dog, or something. Do we have no sense of balance anymore? Is there no attempt to teach that we need to learn how to keep ourselves from turning into a pile of goo?

If I use mine in my lap, it's on a lap-desk with a cushion that raises it up a bit on the knee end to keep it from slipping. Wonder if that counts as table or lap?

There are some experimental long-term memory systems being tacked on to various models here or there. Some of them can even keep you convinced for a pretty decent amount of time that the system is learning as it goes. But eventually the prompt background process that feeds the memory back to the model gets so fat that it makes even simple queries take way too long to process. I haven't managed to figure out if there's a way to eventually fold the learned material into the actual model in a way that would improve performance, or if that would just make it disappear entirely in the flood of other data.

Until we sort that, we don't really have what I always wanted out of AI. It doesn't learn. It doesn't grow. At least, not through normal interaction without a large retraining period.