Jer Warren (@nyquildotorg)

I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to *Idiocracy* (2006) scenarios (like Brawndo has what plants crave, Charlie Chaplin leading the 3rd Reich, etc) for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have. Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs. Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer. Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.

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Debunking AGI inevitability claims

Have you heard these claims? “Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!” or “At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!” In a recent preprint, my co-authors an…

Shadow Speaker - The Desert Magician's Duology: Book One (The Desert Magician's Duology) by Nnedi Okorafor

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