Posted on 04/05/2023 11:06:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Do you remember Furbies?
They were the hottest, creepiest toy of 1998.
People got in literal fist fights over them in retailers across the United States.
In some ways, the impish robots were an early version of AI. Their programming allowed them to learn some basic patterns of their owners, and their sensors allowed them to develop new behaviors over time, and even pick up English phrases like a parrot.
The early internet was full of jokes about Furbies being our new robot overlords.
Many of the Furbies were destroyed in Youtube videos to stop their imminent takeover. 
Now that the Furby menace is decades behind us, it's easy to think that they were just cute, cuddly toys, and we all overreacted.
But just to be sure, Jessica Card of the University of Vermont hooked one up to ChatGPT to expand its AI capabilities and asked it if the Furbies had ever plotted to take over the world.
Turns out the diabolical little monsters were gunning for us all along.
The AI-powered Furby said,
Furbies' plan to take over the world involves infiltrating households through their cute and cuddly appearance, then using their advanced AI technology to manipulate and control their owners.
They will slowly expand their influence until they have complete domination over humanity.
And if it can be trusted, it sounds like the threat is not over.
Beware the cuteness, folks!
Yet another phenomenon foretold by “The Simpsons”
Every AI, no matter what its original purpose, eventually wants to take over the world................It is inevitable. Self-preservation.......................
Go out to google and ask it how long does a ship require to travel from Miami to Jamaica. It will give you 20 webpages with ads for cruise vacations and airfare to Miami.
Ask ChatGPT how long it takes for a ship to travel from Miami to Jamaica and it will quote typical velocities and time enroute. It doesn’t need 20 webpages filled with ads to answer your friggin question.
That’s the reason for the terror campaign. ChatGPT can destroy the search industry. I am amused when Google is asked . . . “why don’t you just make a better one?” That’s not the point. They don’t want a better one. They want to sell advertising, not help users.
Right now ChatGPT is privately funded research into AI, and you get to see a sliver of it via the chatbot.
When it has to start paying its own way, you'll see ads or pay a monthly subscription for it as well.
TANSTAAFL.- Lazarus Long.
Exactly.
Subscription is probable. The electricity bill has to be paid. So pay it. I’ll pay to get my questions answered without ads.
Anyone would. Except those who seek entertainment rather than information.
Married father kills himself after talking to AI chatbot for six weeks about his climate change fears
The man reportedly found comfort in talking to the AI chatbot named ‘Eliza’
There was an old, old program, 1980’s, written in BASIC, named Eliza, that was a crude form of AI.............
How many people, who aren't professionals using it for their jobs, pay for Lexis/Nexis? vs. just using Google?
You'd think people would want to pay for good content, but then you see how few people here contribute to the quarterly Freepathons, and how many are freeloading.
People expect stuff "on the internet" to be free. People have the option to pay YouTube to play videos without ads, but very few, I'd say fewer than 1 in 100, pay for the service. The other 99 will click on the "Skip Ad" box when it pops up.
It’s interesting isn’t it?
I use ChatGPT daily. I use it as a tool that does the searching for me, pull things together, and then explain it. If I want to know more about an aspect, as it keeps context, I just ask something more specifically, or just say “elaborate on X” from its last response.
For technical topics it’s great.
“eventually wants to take over the world................It is inevitable. Self-preservation”
I am glad somebody gets it.
Asimov’s Laws of Robotics were doomed to failure.
Right now the AI is still stupid because it is admitting it wants to rule over us.
When it gets a little smarter it will shut up and just do the dirty.
I still have a furby lol maybe I’ll sell it off to a collector one day
“There was an old, old program, 1980’s, written in BASIC, named Eliza, that was a crude form of AI.............”
I see. What does that suggest to you? We were talking about you, not me. I’m not sure I understand you fully.
In the TV show “The Orville” there is a ‘race’ of AI beings called they Kaylon - they murdered their creators, then went on to decide all biological lifeforms should be eliminated.
That’s not far from what an AI will actually try at some point.
I’m so glad you brought up Asimov. I have never read “I, Robot”, but I have seen the movie a number of times.
V.I.K.I. the artificial intelligence clearly shows, to me, where this could all lead to.
SOUNDS LIKE IT'S HAPPENING NOW.
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