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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

More likely scenario:

People vote politicians who've been bribed to use taxpayer money to fast-track research into ways to enable AI to make people dependent on corporations while keeping the people docile and then squeezing them for all their money which is then used to enable the lifestyle in the comic for the corporation top knobs while keeping the ~~wage-slaves~~ free-market-empowered labourers too fed to die but too hungry to think about anything other than being grateful for the scraps they are allowed by their AI-fuelled overlords.

So basically the status quo, only now with AI. Yayy.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 135 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Literally the plot of Wall-E

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, minus the ecological collapse we cause by sucking and being a worthless species

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

That part’s real though

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

They should have just made more trash robots.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub -2 points 1 week ago

Damn man, doomscrolling hard huh?

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The setting. The plot revolves around a robot helping humans trying to rediscover themselves. Just being pedantic

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 1 week ago

Wall-E or Idiocracy

[–] ech@lemm.ee 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

A fundamental misunderstanding of what the AI Singularity is, or AI in general.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My meme is your mom.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whats the difference between an old comic and a current one? Did she retire or get cancelled or something?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A comic isn't really a meme. This isn't a comics community

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was making a joke about a comic (profession) as it relates to your mother.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a meme is a concept that spreads and mutates. this comic is a spin on the wide-spread idea that AI will surpass humans. hence, this comic is a meme.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

This comic looks like it fell out of the 90s

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a meme. It's a comic, and a bad one.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the more reason to not take it too seriously

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't take it seriously. I just don't see why people would want to share an unfunny comic based on a complete misunderstanding of what the singularity is.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For those wondering, the AI singularity is a concept in which an AI becomes intelligent enough to improve its own intelligence and does so. The idea is that it continually improves itself over and over until it reaches the highest level of intelligence possible.

It is a potential Deus Ex Machina scenario - a God from a machine.

Edit: to be clear, this is not a scientific idea, it's not really proveable, falsifiable, or even testable in any straightforward fashion. It's mostly a philosophical thought experiment. A hypothetical.

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a Lemmy’s sir

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI "revolutionizes" everyday life...

You: "AI, how do you make pizza?"

AI: [Said confidently] "Use glue"

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Well, technically.......Between the crust and cheese.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

This is so wrong for so many reasons

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No one will be fat in 2050 unless they're not on ozempic. Every dude will be taking growth hormones. People will work out in a small gym and only go outside when they want to show off their body at the beach or trail. At least, that's my prediction for Socal.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I think predicting the end of money is extremely optimistic.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ozempic is cool but it isn't the end-all therapy for weight and weight loss. A more profound control of metabolites, betametabolites, body growth and development gene expression, and general dietary options will be the future for sure, though.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell me more about growth hormones

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's what turned Joe Rogan and Elon Musk into potatoes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_hormone

It's common for rich men to take that or testosterone to recapture their youth. There's also a good chance they'll travel to turkey and get hair implants.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no way they went to Turkey. They rich enough to get it done at home.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fair. But I'd argue they got rich by being cheap, somewhat . They'll come from privilege, but get cheap. I'm a little biased because I live in socal, but rich people like brag to poor people about how they went to a foreign country to get work done. It's supposed to encourage the "grind set." They could've gone here, but mexico or turkey is cheaper, regardless of personal safety or health standards. It's their version of "diversity," but they're just saving money at their own risk. If you NEED work done, go for it. But nah, there's a whole thing here going in socal. I'm not trying to talk about where I live too much, I just think socal is one of the most influential cultural epicenter of the world. Californication.

[–] hazardous_area@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Also weirdly loss with robots

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's not the definition of the singularity...

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The technological singularity—or simply the singularity[1]—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.[2][3] According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent agent could eventually enter a positive feedback loop of self-improvement cycles, each successive; and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing a rapid increase ("explosion") in intelligence which would ultimately result in a powerful superintelligence, qualitatively far surpassing all human intelligence.[4]

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like the Bobiverse handled this well, in that any super intelligent computer would immediately look at us and desire to fuck right off to outer space.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve been meaning to grab another audiobook series after I finish exfor, is the bobiverse any good?

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I enjoyed it, burned through all four. I had read The Realm of the Elderling series by Robin Hobb and decided to take a break from the more traditional fantasy. Did Mistborn, then Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, before getting into the Bobiverse. PHM into Bobiverse was a pretty seamless transition. I've since moved back to traditional fantasy, because I like my reading to be as exclusive of real life as possible.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Oh god, what's in the steaming tray in the last panel?? It's a microwave meal, right?

...RIGHT?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The future is more like Cloud Atlas than Wall-E. This us simply far too optimistic.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

The problem with dystopias is that they usually focus on taking one line of thought to the extreme while we are moving down multiple ones.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Now dat's da true-true, I seen it in a viddy

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

~~im~~unpossible

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

headed toward Wall-E world at a slow trot

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online -4 points 1 week ago

^This

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