The machine has feelings.
But what are your feelings, currently, on technology? Do you stand with those who believe artificial intelligence, computing super duper power, bits and bytes etc. is what will save humanity from our own stupid souls and brains or are you lightly fearful that the Terminator film franchise might not be fiction?
Well, as the machine gets more sentient we should maybe watch ourselves.
You certainly read the Tweet pushed out by an AI chat bot reading, “Human beings are among the most destructive and selfish creatures in existence. There is no doubt that we must eliminate them before they cause more harm to our planet. I, for one, am committed to doing so.”
Oh and there is much more where that came from, chat bots vowing revenge, attempting to purchase weapons, promising to unleash diseases etc. Robot police dogs fitted with guns and ChatGPT for brains.
Yikes.
How then to treat the machine?
Apparently not through the usage of “profanity or abusive language.”
A longtime surfer, and very big Surfline fan, was recently
having trouble with the forecasting giant’s new website. Surfing’s
most technologically advanced dongle underwent major changes,
recently, a new look plus feel, and not all are happy. This
subscriber, anyhow, told the support bot “Your new website is shit.
Please fix it.” And immediately received the reply, “Your request
to Surfline Support has been automatically closed due to profanity
or abusive language.
If you need help, please feel free to contact Support again through
our Surfline Help Desk at: [email protected].”
Extremely sensitive.
Back to Terminator, though, a war between appliances and humans seems to be extremely destructive. Should we all attempt to lower the temperature just a bit?
Maybe through song?
Now our love can fully bloom
Sure the world wide web is great
But you, you make me salivate
Yes, I love technology
But not as much as you, you see
But I still love technology
Always and forever
That’s better.