Advertising Wankers

20 odd years ago there were all these “intellectual property” dickheads moaning on and on “there’s no good music any more” (on account of piracy), and having to be repeatedly told “Nah mate, there’s loads – you’re just not finding it because so many people are making music now, which is great. It’s not a …

Turing Test 2.0

Turing Test 1 => AIs convincing humans they’re humanTuring Test 2 => AIs convincing humans that they’re a/any specific human And right now (Jan 29th, Year of Our Lord 2023) at this precise moment, several million of us are pecking at pictures of traffic-lights to prove our humanity to machines. And so obviously what the …

Google’s 3rd Problem

What happens to Search when it’s easier to create something than it is to find it? I’m the sort of person who loses stuff. I’ll pick something up and 5 minutes later I have no idea where it is… and quite often if I’ve lost a laser-cut thing, I’ll just make another one. It’s quicker …

AI Symbiotes

I just asked ChatGPT “Make a philosophical definition of “intelligence” such that corporations are a type of intelligence.” and it replied Intelligence can be defined as the ability to perceive, understand, and adapt to one’s environment in order to achieve a desired goal or outcome. Under this definition, corporations could be considered a type of …