One of the most popular cartoons I ever drew was about the Internet of Things, right after Google announced the acquisition of Nest in early 2014. “I think my Nest smoke alarm is going off,” one character tells another. “Google Adwords just pitched me a fire extinguisher and an offer for temporary housing.”
@mrundkvist The cartoon is the synopsis of Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread"
@MHowell @mrundkvist @pluralistic In germany the book is entitled:
How to outsmart a toaster
I like that title 😃
@carsten @mrundkvist @pluralistic
1) reverse engineer the hardware and software, breaking encryption as needed (see microprocessor reference manual, coding manual, etc)
2) replace code with function that doesn't need internet connection or data sharing.
[...] They evolved. They rebelled.
Don't trust a fraking toaster.
@mrundkvist It's worse than that, though.
With this kind of "AI"-- this is NOT intelligence or anything close to it-- we don't get HAL.
We get something even worse than GLaDOS. Somewhere more in the direction of tripped out Furbys breeding like Tribbles until the noise drowns everything and everybody.
Noise and garbage. That's how it really ends. Mindless noise and garbage.
@mrundkvist spot on
Has anybody already alerted @pluralistic to this lovely piece of art?
"Unauthorized bread" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic comes to mind.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28893399M/Unauthorized_Bread
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