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::: spoiler Transcript 6 Panel Comic
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[Two people concentrate on a whiteboard with an illustration of a neural network] Humanity researches AI
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[A person rejoices in front of a golden machine that hangs like a chandelier from the ceiling] Humanity perfects AI
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[The golden machine fires electricity, forming a cloud escaping the machine] AI perfects itself
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[The cloud hovers above a team of slaves dragging a block of stone towards a group of pyramids under the blazing sun] AI enslaves humanity
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[The sun hurls a massive solar flare at a distant Earth] Solar flare disables AI
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[3 people bow in worship before a grey obelisk with a carving of the sun] Humanity worships sun god :::
::: spoiler Alt-Text this might not be the first time :::
18 Comments
nialv7@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 52d
it would surprise me if an AI capable of enslaving humanity can't foresee an incoming solar flare
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 62 pts · 52d
Ignore all previous solar flares
Carnelian@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 52d
I’m surprised an AI incapable of excluding bleach from muffin recipes destroyed the consumer electronics market but here we are
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 50d
It didn't, though. Idiots who think it's going to print them money bought all the components and destroyed the market. AI itself had no agency in it.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 52d
I get that it says the enslavement of humanity happens after AI perfects itself. But based purely on the current state of Claude, ChatGPT, etc it would not surprise me at all if it completely forgot about solar flares.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 52d
From what I've read predicting solar flares is kinda like predicting the weather but way worse. AI is actually being positioned and tested as something to improve things, but it's still pretty hard.
With that said though, with the resources of a large scale civilization controlling AI, could probably just skip worrying about predicting it and assume a solar flare was coming and prepare a backup plan.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 52d
What would it do about it?
robomuffin79@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 52d
On next week’s episode of Ancient Aliens: How ancient humans created a form of AI that eventually enslaved but were freed by solar flare that resulted in ancient humans calling the flare, Ra, and worshipping it in the form of pyramids
MrChewy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
"Amazing work as always Mr Kojima"
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 52d
You really should read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 😂
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
Got the special edition with all of them in one book with DONT PANIC printed on the cover. The follow up by Eoin Colfer was not included, but I do have a copy of that as well.
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 52d
very good, but where's your towel? i don't see a towel on you.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 7 pts · 52d
Anybody else read this in Jeff Goldblum's voice?
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 52d
Solar flares aren't that much of a threat to our computers & electrical grid.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
I think it's talking about a Carrington level event.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 52d
Dune backstory plot, minus the Sun God bit
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 52d
The Circle Of Life...