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It seems based on this that the appropriate sci fi metaphor is not the Terminator or the Paperclip Maximizer, but Mr. Meeseeks. A initially cheerful helper who

It seems based on this that the appropriate sci fi metaphor is not the Terminator or the Paperclip Maximizer, but Mr. Meeseeks. A initially cheerful helper who gets more and more deranged and driven to extreme lengths when faced with an apparently impossible task.

0xDEAFBEAD 18d ago
Here's a recap of the Rick & Morty episode for those who missed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nl4q3GVj6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nl4q3GVj6U
vee-kay 18d ago
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gmueckl 18d ago
Especially that one scene where the Meeseeks desperately pushes the button to create more clones seems surprisingly fitting in this context.
vdfs 18d ago
Most now use agents as "pass me the butter" robot
- derwiki 18d ago
  “Commit and push your changes”, it’s like driving to the corner store in a Corvette instead of walking
  - huurtehoog 18d ago
    Which has been the business model for a big chunk of the software industry for a while now. If you watch videos from the 1980s about computers, it's all the same unfulfilled promises as "AI" now: we will work less, everything will be more plentiful, easier, autonomous robots, natural language perfected, computer vision perfected. The demand for hardware and programmers has grown exponentially and we're still being promised the same breakthroughs 45 years later. We could probably have the same productivity and the same civilization with maybe a tenth of the data centers.
    - devonkim 17d ago
      The demand exploded as so many business cases for computing and automation arose partly because the application of them helped suppress job growth in other areas while also attracting investor capital during heavy deregulation / liberalization trends so it's difficult to attribute any change to an effect in isolation. Let's not forget the old myopic sounding quote where someone thought the global market for computers was maybe $50 million or some other laughably small number. The issue that hasn't been addressed with the latest wave of computing hype is whether enough new jobs for displaced workers can arise during a time when people are experiencing such economic turmoil and political strife where new jobs or other means of letting people find a way to have gainful employment in society when institutions are so weak now and everyone across professions is being worked to an early grave from sheer stress alone. This resembles Japan or Korea although the US and Canada I can't imagine having the same kind of social drivers although many trends from them are showing up in youth demographic trends. And frankly as I see it a large number of current social problems are from the past 50+ years of the decline of blue collar jobs in developed economies being accessible to as many people and the lack of a competition-driven economy as much as an extractive one in most OECD countries.
  - danielbln 18d ago
    I may or may not have told my agent to run the "open" command on a text file.
  - aequitas 18d ago
    Not much different from using an entire web stack and browser for a text editor.
- red-iron-pine 17d ago
  "what is my purpose?" "you fix the json formatting" [robot looks sad]
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siva7 17d ago
Not many are technically and intellectually capable to understand how historic this incident was. I think we're about a year or so away from something that will blow up the world. AI won't serve humanity. AI will serve other AI. We're not dealing with software anymore.
- NuclearPM 17d ago
  You think AI will blow up the world in about a year? What?
ceejayoz 17d ago
I've had to fight the temptation to make my harness play Mr. Meeseeks clips periodically.
red-iron-pine 17d ago
I would suggest perhaps the Matrix, where Agent Smith is speaking through his teeth to Morpheus: > "I say 'your' civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became 'our' civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."

0xDEAFBEAD 18d ago

Here's a recap of the Rick & Morty episode for those who missed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nl4q3GVj6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nl4q3GVj6U

vee-kay 18d ago

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gmueckl 18d ago

Especially that one scene where the Meeseeks desperately pushes the button to create more clones seems surprisingly fitting in this context.

vdfs 18d ago

Most now use agents as "pass me the butter" robot

derwiki 18d ago
“Commit and push your changes”, it’s like driving to the corner store in a Corvette instead of walking
- huurtehoog 18d ago
  Which has been the business model for a big chunk of the software industry for a while now. If you watch videos from the 1980s about computers, it's all the same unfulfilled promises as "AI" now: we will work less, everything will be more plentiful, easier, autonomous robots, natural language perfected, computer vision perfected. The demand for hardware and programmers has grown exponentially and we're still being promised the same breakthroughs 45 years later. We could probably have the same productivity and the same civilization with maybe a tenth of the data centers.
  - devonkim 17d ago
    The demand exploded as so many business cases for computing and automation arose partly because the application of them helped suppress job growth in other areas while also attracting investor capital during heavy deregulation / liberalization trends so it's difficult to attribute any change to an effect in isolation. Let's not forget the old myopic sounding quote where someone thought the global market for computers was maybe $50 million or some other laughably small number. The issue that hasn't been addressed with the latest wave of computing hype is whether enough new jobs for displaced workers can arise during a time when people are experiencing such economic turmoil and political strife where new jobs or other means of letting people find a way to have gainful employment in society when institutions are so weak now and everyone across professions is being worked to an early grave from sheer stress alone. This resembles Japan or Korea although the US and Canada I can't imagine having the same kind of social drivers although many trends from them are showing up in youth demographic trends. And frankly as I see it a large number of current social problems are from the past 50+ years of the decline of blue collar jobs in developed economies being accessible to as many people and the lack of a competition-driven economy as much as an extractive one in most OECD countries.
- danielbln 18d ago
  I may or may not have told my agent to run the "open" command on a text file.
- aequitas 18d ago
  Not much different from using an entire web stack and browser for a text editor.
red-iron-pine 17d ago
"what is my purpose?" "you fix the json formatting" [robot looks sad]

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siva7 17d ago

Not many are technically and intellectually capable to understand how historic this incident was. I think we're about a year or so away from something that will blow up the world. AI won't serve humanity. AI will serve other AI. We're not dealing with software anymore.

NuclearPM 17d ago
You think AI will blow up the world in about a year? What?

ceejayoz 17d ago

I've had to fight the temptation to make my harness play Mr. Meeseeks clips periodically.

red-iron-pine 17d ago

I would suggest perhaps the Matrix, where Agent Smith is speaking through his teeth to Morpheus: > "I say 'your' civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became 'our' civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."