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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I can see someone in the future watching a program run and asking "wow, is that ai? A PERSON typed those cryptic letters? No way!"

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements."

All the lines look blurry when you're squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

In the not too distant future...

NPC: "ChatGPT told me I got ghosts in my blood and I better inject bleach bout it"

AI Corpo: "thankfully, no human programmed it to respond with that, so we are not liable"

Fascist court: "NPC's family must pay AI Corpo damages for negative publicity"

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

yeah, we should talk about "probabilistic" vs. "deterministic" behavior instead.

all programs are somewhat intelligent. that's why computers were originally built, after all, to do a part of our workload. If they were completely stupid, we wouldn't really use any computers at all, so yes, intelligence is a necessary feature of every program. the question is whether it has well-defined deterministic behavior or not.