Today's manmade horror: Bazingas on twitter are amazed that glorified chatbots like GPT-3 can produce readable text that is nominally about whatever topic you request. Say they just spent 20 minutes learning about physics. Say that this makes all existing forms of education obsolete. Say that teachers are no longer needed.
Directly below this someone else posted a prolonged dialogue where the GPT-3 bot calmly explained why a peregrine falcon is the worlds fastest marine mammal. When corrected it said that the sailfish is the fastest marine mammal, explaining that sailfish are warm blooded and have fur.
Bazingas think they can replace teachers (and everything else) with their half-baked machine learning systems because they're so ignorant and uneducated about anything outside their direct field of expertise that they don't actually know what any other disciplines do, or why they do what they do, or even how to evaluate when they're being fed bad knowledge.
Link for dunking.
It's really funny to me that these techbros treat technology in a manner indistinguishable from gods. They're enamored with the romantic ideas of technology but refuse to do the work to learn anything about it, and are easily impressed by shiny objects that fall apart under, like, half a minute of scrutiny. They're so fucking dumb.
Speculative technology is even more mystical and woo to bazingas. The assumption is that hockey stick shaped curves will maintain that shape and trajectory forever.
Today the printing press, tomorrow digital apotheosis
Climate disasters don't matter because that's a short term problem. The real important questions involve how many trillions of immortal cyber-angels can dance on the head of a Singularity(tm) pin billions of years from now. :galaxy-brain:
The number of people saying that AI art programs work exactly like the human mind, when as far as I know the best neuroscientists don't have any idea how creativity works, is too damn high.
That delusion is even on Hexbear. :downbear: