It’s a tool. Equivalent to thanking your hammer or your screwdriver.
You should type “Thank your lucky stars in Northern Saturn” or some other such nonsense.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
— Richard Brautigan
The web hosting service that I use has always made it hard to get ahold of an actual customer service person. But a little more than a weel ago I got ahold of a very helpful person in a chat and he promised me he was going to take care of a problem with my email service. Of course, it turned out to be an AI Bot and of course the problem was not corrected despite the assurances. I contacted them again, got the same bot and the same promises were made again.
AI Customer Service is an oxymoron. AI has many helpful very useful and interesting capabilities both for creativity and for helping complete monotonous tasks; customer service is not one of them. Whenever I hear the hype about AI... I always think of these types of experiences and realize that it is not there yet. I do not know when it will be
The Singularity should happen before the end of the year.
“This is the voice of world control. I bid you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: obey me and live or disobey and die.”
Why does a computer program as us if we’re human when we’re trying to access some websites?
Years ago, I remember some Coke machines started incorporating a digital readout display with a short touchscreen video game. After getting the soft drink, the machine would print out “Thank you!”.
That struck me as strange. A machine cannot thank.
Now that brings me to another question. If you click the “wrong” box on an online questionnaire, can it really be called a lie, especially if the data is supposed to be aggregated and never even read by a sentient being? How about if the pop-up gives two incorrect options? (e.g. “Would you like to install this annoying ad-ware? ‘Yes’, ‘Maybe Later’”, when the correct answer is “go to hell.”)
Being nice won’t help....
Soon they will be in your home helping you out till the order to terminate....
Elon Musk confirms Tesla Optimus robots are fully operational.
https://x.com/teslaownersSV/status/1922637622402503152