I thought the Apple building was round?

If AI wave goes on 5 more years, might end up with a few new/refurb nuke power plants going.

Wanna hear a tinfoil-hat level conspiracy theory?

Maybe the entire AI hype is just to grab $$$ to build out huge data systems for full world population level surveillance?

Once every bit of data about people is captured and updated real-time, command and control could provide some folks with a cool real-world SIMs game.

I mean, 'AI' systems are really there to shuffle through exobytes of data and do rapid pattern recognition and matching.

Waiting for Amazone's Blue Origin rocket delivery.

There's a loud *WHUMP!* from front yard and at the bottom of the smoking crater, your squashed package with your new colander and salad tongs.

I used to wear a shirt that said I was:
Rich
Goodlooking
Bulletproof
Invisible
(something about tequila but back then is a haze).

[waits for size 9 faux tactical boots to kick down the basement door]

Yeah, 10 years in college as well, just one rather strident libertarian prof (in the '80s). Got smart and looked up any papers he had in school library, dropped a few complimentary ideas and themes in my papers; straight As for that year.

Ah, the Oscar Wilde defense.

everyone sitting in their AI slop curated social pod, AI summarizing AI slop in, AI generating slop replies.

Digital Eddies may end up replacing the Dollar as the US slides towards busniness myopia.

Liongate VP: "Why does every guy look like Keanu Reeves and every woman Jennifer Lawrence?"

It's great at data surveys and filtering huge swaths of data.

can be commented on with the Nick Cage "You don't say!" meme image.

After working tech support for the VIP / VP floor, I decided that the less you read, the more money you made.

VP customer: "It won't let me log on."

[Admin scrambles IT support, flashing red lights down the hallway]

PFY: "It says your password has expired. You need to create a new one."

VP [cogitating]: "I have to create a new password?"

PFY: "Yes"

VP: "Sheila, I need you to get me a new password, STAT!"

Different pictures, a bit more verbage.

https://apnews.com/article/ung...