The good news is that I avoided installing windows 95 today.
the bad news? I'm installing Visual Basic 6 instead.
The good news is that I avoided installing windows 95 today.
the bad news? I'm installing Visual Basic 6 instead.
I imagine it's only a matter of time before some site like Facebook or discord adds a "feature" where they train an AI model on each of your contacts when you talk to them, so that if you ever ask them a question and they're away from the phone, it can have the AI model respond instead.
"your friend isn't here, but this is what we think they'd say:"
The only part of this that's fictional is the idea that they'd make it so absolutely clear when you're talking to the model instead of the human
Anyway they have to turn it off and delete the model if the person dies, because Charlie Brooker has a patent
@niki suggested that this could be used for blocking: you train a model on yourself, and instead of actually blocking someone, you just force them to only talk to the model.
Like the worst kind of shadow-block: they can't talk to you anymore, but they may never realize it
Game idea: a chat room is set up with N players, who all talk to each other normally. At some point, one of them will be replaced with an AI model trained on what they'd said before. Players can accuse each other of being the AI, but if wrong, they're penalized. They get points based on how close their accusation was to the flip.
@clacke I was really confused by this comment for a second, since "Turing" is my last name
@ajroach42 @zarfeblong although to be honest and fair that took nearly 20 years of asking and pleading
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