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Prairie Gates

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1. "This is just the beginning of AI!"

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Mon Aug 18, 2025, 10:38 PM

Aug 18

They've been working on AI for 60 years, actually. The latest schlock is the best they've been able to come up with. The hype campaign (done by human PR people and advertisers) is far more impressive than the garbage it spit out after 60 years of development.

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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event [View all] Celerity Aug 18 OP

"This is just the beginning of AI!" Prairie Gates Aug 18 #1

It's outstanding at some things... we have deep historical dives WarGamer Aug 18 #5

It's really good for aggregating information. This week I started ... rog Aug 19 #9

Naysayers have been moving the goalposts for 60 years Bernardo de La Paz Aug 19 #14

Mind throttle your internet usage. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 18 #2

Creepy leftstreet Aug 18 #3

It's also killing off jobs. Xolodno Aug 18 #4

That's exactly why so much money was put into its development. Good for the next quarterly report, long term - ? eppur_se_muova Aug 18 #8

We used to buy stuff we needed or at least wanted jfz9580m Aug 19 #13

"suggesting an era of murdered children as influencers" dickthegrouch Aug 18 #6

and if they hired a real human actor to play the teen, using the script??? nt msongs Aug 18 #7

This is just sick....nt Figarosmom Aug 19 #10

This country's stubborn refusal to regulate it is a price no one can afford to pay. Karasu Aug 19 #11

Something I was wondering about tonight, is what if a segment of AI creates a virus to harm AI. C Moon Aug 19 #12