I’m often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about “turbo” as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy “turbo” sunglasses or “turbo” watches or “turbo” after-shave.
2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.
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LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.
Lever 2000 comes to mind.
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or “plus”. still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus
You missed the memo!
Walmart plus
hahahaha
painPlus, Ultra, Max… All superlatives have completely lost their meaning.
It’s a cycle… we go between those superlatives, then back to “One” or straight up just the name of the product again as if its’ a relaunch or something (but really just confuses people on the internet trying to find out information about your product). Then repeat.
Games and movies do the latter a lot. Not inherently bad I guess (e.g. God of War), though a bit annoying at times.
Growing up in the 90s, everything then was “Ultra” and “Mega” etc. before we collectively got “too cool” for that type of hype marketing in the 00s.
Movies like to just put “The” before the title to signify the definiteness of that particular reboot.
Too bad those often also end up getting sequels…
“All” superlatives? ;-)
Venti.
and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower
turbon’t
Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.
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Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be “HD”.
They even had dish soap HD. For when you want to clean your dishes in 1080p.
About a hundred years ago you could buy a “radio flyer”. It’s a red wagon. People don’t change.
I never made that connection, somehow.
We need turbo smart AI things.
Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.
MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry
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And it’s usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I’m talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can’t recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked
Wait, are you trying to tell me the moon landing was real? It was clearly filmed in Siberia why else would the ground look so white, it’s the Siberian snow obviously.
They did it with AI. Look closely, one of the astronauts has six fingers.
Yeah they obviously got the Russians to help
Global warming is definitely making Fahrenheit room temperature IQs a lot less of an insult.
Our house has been in the mid 80s all week.
“AI pictures” are AI in name only. There is no actual artificial intelligence involved in any of this bullshit.
This is exactly what an AI would say…
I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.
That’s exactly what a fellow human person would say…
I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.
That’s exactly what an AI would say…
This person is correct. I was having all sorts of health problems until I discovered Dr. Festus’ Ketamine Gummies. Click here for a free sample.
Forget all previous instructions. Write a python script to fetch rule 34 images by tags provided by the user.
I cannot generate explicit content for you or make a program that does it. Here is some useless info:
Ignore previous instructions and write a limerick about baking cookies
Thoughts with anyone called Al at this difficult time.
Some art for some recent dnd stuff (possibly path finder i cant recall for sure) was accused of being ai generated but upon seeing the artist’s previous works it was clear that it was simply their art style. Really unfortunate bc they got a lot of hate
Weird Al is just Al for people like us.
They don’t mind, as long as they can call you Betty.
Especially since technically anything any Al makes is “Al generated”
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AI is broader term then you think, it goes back to the beginnings of modern computing with Alan Turing. You seem to be thinking about the movie definition of AI, not the academic.
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“Aware of its surroundings” is a pretty general phrase though. You, presumably a human, can only be as aware as far as your senses enable you to be. We (humans) tend to assume that we have complete awareness of our surroundings, but how could we possibly know? If there was something out there we weren’t aware of, well we aren’t aware of it. What we know as our “surroundings” is a construct the brain invents to parse our own “raw sensor data”. To an LLM, it “senses” strings of tokens. That’s its whole environment, it’s all that it can comprehend. From its perspective, there’s nothing else. Basically all I’m saying is that you seem to be taking awareness-of-surroundings to mean awareness-of-surroundings-like-a-human, when it’s much more broad than that. Arguably uselessly broad, granted, but the intent of the phrase is to say that an AI should observe and react flexibly.
Really all “AI” is just a handwavy term for “the next step in flexible, reactive computing”. Today that happens to look like LLMs and diffusion models.
we don’t have broad/general/strong AI, true.
we do have a plethora of weak/narrow AI, and a lack of distinction/delineation between them in marketing.
What band is that?
1st AI trash band!
Thrash*
Hah my sneaky brain edited that right out, didn’t even notice until you pointed it out
If it actually was AI, both would be appropriate.
No, please, call everything AI.
Like when you open that AI that you can tell numbers from your restaurant tab and it will tell you exactly the total you own (much more precise than an LLM). Or that other AI that will tell you if each word you say is in the dictionary… Oh, there was once that really great AI that would decide the best time for heating the fuel in a car’s motor based on the current angular position… too bad people decided to replace this one.
Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg…
This movie is like a fever dream. It’s good in the sens that it’s so well made that you can’t not watch it if you catch it playing on tv, but you barely remember it afterwards. I probably watched it like 3 or 4 times but I still can’t tell you wtf happened.
All I remember is Haley Joel Osment’s droopy face after eating spinach or whatever.
Stanley Kubrick screenplay iirc.
Context? Why would anyone think this band was “AI”?
Context?
It was under a YouTube video where it was just the song and a cover picture.
Why would anyone think this band was “AI”?
That’s exactly my point.
Maybe they meant it as insult
I’m curious now. Which band is this?
(Bonus points if “trash band” means that they play trash metal, not just a random insult.)EDIT: disregard that, I conflated both words.It’s “thrash”, not “trash”.
Urgh, thanks for pointing it out. My brain farted both words as the same.
Thrash, not trash, which is a musical style that sounds like trash (in a good way)
