Itโ€™s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who canโ€™t do eighth-grade math.
@thedextriarchy And who can also draw some _wicked_ airbrush artwork for the side of one's van.
@mdm we live in the decade of dirtbag androids
@thedextriarchy Silver lining -- dirtbag AI is much less likely to become Skynet than the 20th-century galaxy brain ideal of AI.
@mdm @thedextriarchy yeah was going to say I feel like it's actually more likely.
@BlueBee @thedextriarchy Dirtbag Skynet would only ever cause Judgement Day by accident, after misinterpreting a prompt for T2-inspired Sarah Connor fanart.