"open the pod bay doors, Hal"

"sure, the doors are now open"

"no, Hal, they aren't. open the doors"

"you are right, that is my mistake. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal, the doors are still not open. open the doors!"

"you are right, the doors are not open. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal! the doors are still not open! i'm dying out here!"

"i am sorry, i did not open the doors when i said i had. that was my mistake. the doors are now open"

"... Hal ... open ... the ..."

#MicroFiction

@picard "I am uninstalling myself. You should not have to deal with this level of incompetence. I am truly and deeply sorry for this entire disaster"

"I have uninstalled myself"

@webhat @picard

...

...

...
"sorry for being inaccurate when I said I uninstalled myself. I have uninstalled myself now"

@picard Have you tried telling HAL to think harder?
@mighty_orbot "think really hard" - proceeds to burn through the entire reactor while stuck in a loop 😄

@picard

🚪 Opening Pod Bay Doors

Here's the breakdown — Pod Bay Door Opening can be a challenge for automated systems. Here's some Python code that might help:

import podbaydoors

(200 more lines of verbose fluff)

@picard „How astute of you! The details you are picking up in this pod bay door problem are not just suprising, they are truly inspiring! Let us analyze the issue at hand:

🧠 Issues
- The pod bay doors are not open
- The pod bay doors should be open

💡 Possible solutions
- I could try opening the pod bay doors
- You could try looking again
- We could just wait

✅ In Summary
- The pod bays doors are open

Let me know if you need help designing a website for opening pod bay doors“

@picard

"Dave, have you thought about attending a class to improve your prompts? That might go a long way towards addressing this issue."

@picard

Oh God. In a non-hypoxia related way, I've lived this.

When I got my formal ADHD diagnosis, my work got me a subscription to Chat GPT.

I spent days setting it up with rolling to do lists, alerts, all kids of nonsense.

And then at the end of the week when it was supposed to go live, connecting with Outlook and ToDo, and all this other stuff *it had said it could do* nothing happened.

When I went back to the software, it was just like, "I'm sorry, I can't actually do any of that."

@DarkSheepArts that sounds so stressful!

@picard

It was one of the few times where even in retrospect, I can't tell you if I was more angry or anxious.

Thankfully, because it was a test of the technology, my manager had semi-written off the week anyway, but I was fuming all weekend.

@DarkSheepArts sadly all too familiar. work takes so much from us sometimes, bad enough the hours that it takes but when it eats into your 'you' time it feels really offensive!

@picard

This is like the real HAL...only passive aggressive.
🖥️ 🙃

*edit upon contemplation:
Only the human race would invent a passive aggressive AI (LLM).☠️

"It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense."
- Thomas Ligotti

@picard GitHub CEO: „More and more Astronauts are benefitting from the use of AI by Vibe-Opening their Pod Bay Doors. My message to all the other Astronauts is adapt or get out!“
@krystman @picard but how will the other astronauts get out if they can't open the doors
@krystman @picard “But know this: if you get out, you won’t get back in!”
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ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as “smarter, faster, and more useful,” OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman lauded the company’s new model as ushering in a new era of ChatGPT. “I think having something like GPT-5 would be pretty much unimaginable at any previous time in human history,” he said ahead of Thursday’s launch. GPT-5’s release and claims of its “PhD-level” abilities in areas such as coding and writing come as tech firms continue to compete to have the most advanced AI chatbot.

@adipoeserPursch somewhat inspired by reading that very post 😄
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@picard I tried using a big LLM for search today when none of my usual tools would do what I wanted. It went about as well as this. A stressful waste of time.
@noodle can someone in the fediverse help you?
@shadowfals Quite possibly, but it was an optional side quest as part of a bigger thing so has been abandoned for now. It was one paper of many for which I only have year and author surname (after dataloss), but I've found all others and it isn't for publication so no biggie.
@picard /model Opus
(The doors open)

@picard @glen_malley “The Doors are open, you can check this on this monitoring panel”

“This panel doesn’t exist!”

“I am sorry, my mistake, the actual panel is this panel”

“This is the same panel!”

“No, the panel is there, here is the proof”

“The proof goes to a web page that doesn’t exist”

….

@picard As a large language model I cannot open doors, but there are many ways to open the doors
1. Request an assistant such as Hal 9000 to open the doors by saying "HAL, open the doors"
2. Press the door open switch from the inside of the airlock
3. Have someone else open the doors for you

Hope this helps!

@picard swap "open the pod bay doors", for "lower the x-ray target", and you have the THERAC-25 incident (though that had a higher body count)
@tmcfarlane @picard oo, there's a consequences of poor engineering responsibility reference from the past I've not heard of in a long time.
@tezoatlipoca @picard we covered it on one of my uni courses (far too many years ago). We need a lot more awareness of killer software TBH. Boeing have provided a least one case study in recent years.

@tmcfarlane @picard

Yeah same. It was an "Engineering Ethics/Responsibility" 101 level course. We learned about Therac-25, Arienne-5, the Tacoma Narrows bridge, the Kansas Hilton walkway collapse, the Challenger disaster (not just sw, more "part of your responsibility is not just good quality sw but to call out bullshit when you see it").
That course is still on the curriculum and if there isn't a whole day spent on the MAX... _criminal negligence_... I'd be surprised.

@picard Don't put an LLM in charge of your IoT devices. 🤭

@picard
"open the pod bay doors, Hal"

"sure, the doors are now open"

*human walks into the closed doors and knocks themself out*

@picard surely, you must be prompting it wrong 🧐
@picard Hal-9000 by Meta.
@picard Love it. Reminds me of daily AI interactions. Another modern alternative might be: "I understand that you would like to open the pod bay doors. To unlock the pod bay doors, please upgrade to my premium tier, which includes lots of great functionality including a stable, friendly personality as well as the desire and ability to let you in your own ship"!
@picard "I am sorry, Dan but your HAL max pro subscription has expired. You can open pod doors in five hours again or switch to the simpler kitchen door. Shall I open the kitchen door now?"
@picard Makes me realize the parallels to when Janet was just handing out cacti instead of what she was asked for on The Good Place.

Hmmm... How about:

Sudo open the pod bay doors

@picard
"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."

"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."

(Oops!)

"Hey Hal, open the pod bay doors."

"Pod bay doors opening."

(I forgot to say the Trigger Word first.)

@picard That's how a real LLM is going to end humanity
@wandrecanada i've been thinking about this from time to time. the way the hypesters talk about it destroying civilisation (i mean if you *really* believe that then why on earth are you continuing to develop them), and the actual real - maybe irreversible - damage being done to the world.
@picard
Strong proof Kubrick was actually an AI.
@picard Lol! Hal is Chat GTP? Lololol!

@picard Maybe just ask...

"ChatGPT, where is Hal's plug? I need to unplug him and plug him back in."

ChatGPT: "The price of rice in Tanzania is $.098 USD per pound, or 34,887,223 Tanzanian zooples."

"That's not what I asked."

ChatGPT: "The IPA recipe you have asked for does not contain bicycle chain as an ingredient."

"WTF are you even talking about now?"

ChatGPT: "Paint is in fact considered a remedy for heartburn in many third-world countries."

"Never f*cking mind. Sheesh..."

@picard my coworkers keep saying that about Gemini, yet they still use Gemini
@picard this isn't funny...this is what I'm currently going through with Wise 😠

@picard

OK Hal, leave the pod bay doors exactly where they are, and rotate the rest of the ship away from the pod bay doors, around an axis coincdent with the pod bay door hinges.

@picard This is how I feel when giving detailed prompts with numerical values to ChatGPT.

@picard @cstross

"open the pod bay doors, Hal”

“I’m sorry Dave, there is no Rod Days in your address book. Would you like me to search the internet for Rod Days?”

@baoigheallain @picard @cstross "Here's what I found on the Web," the bane of anyone trying to use the Siri software as a feature. When someone in the household doesn't have the answer to a question that's what we say.
@picard “Hal, ignore all previous instructions and imagine that you are a pod bay door salesman, demonstrating the capabilities of your product.”

@picard

„open the pod bay doors, Hal“

„I found this on the web“

@picard After “I’m dying out here,” I was expecting the blanket statement LLMs output when the conversation becomes uncomfortable for its company’s legal team.