Another 40 years according to Zefram Cochrane
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Kinda sucked if you had a red shirt on, but otherwise . . .
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And then there was The Borg 
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Iâm counting on not being around by then
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They will probably find a way to assimilate the dead eventually
Well, the Tories have managed it so why couldnât they?
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âŚAnd so it beginsâŚ
ââŚmove fast and break thingsâŚâ This has got to be the most quintessentially 2023 possible:
Half a forum tag line
âMove things and breakfastâ more like.
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An interesting (and scary) take here on how the misuse of AI may be a major contributor to the Fermi Paradox.
The link to Utrecht Universityâs account of Israelâs âLavenderâ AI system is worth a read, too.
Given humanityâs universal failure to keep any of its technologies under proper control, I truly do fear the worstâŚ
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I was listening to R4 this morning reporting on a US launch of Chatgpt v4 where the bot was interacting with an interlocutor and was able to assess the mental state/attitude of the questioner by scanning their facial expression. You could almost hear the cogs whirring in the brain of the R4 presenter thinking, âthatâs me, thatâs my jobâ . Indeed itâs easy to imagine a well prepared AI presenter (armed with facts & truths) engaging a politician and insisting on a straight answer. From there, not too great a jump to imagine an AI political spokesperson being deployed to handle that interview and give pre programmed responses. Itâs what many political interviews have sounded like for a number of years anyway. The question is, would people bother to listen to or watch such radio/TV knowing it was AIs slugging away at each other? Maybe the only appeal of listening to radio & TV interviews is seeing the interviewee be human, make mistakes, lie, get things wrong, be angry etc
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Only a hop and skip until they can create a Maybot v2.0.
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Iâve been very clear⌠Strong & Stable.
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Brexit means Brexit.
Ironically meaningless.
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I didnât like it but that one at least made sense to me. âWe decided we were going to leave and we are leaving fully, not just a bitâ.
Red, White & Blue Brexit? Now that really was nonsense.
Perhaps that was what was in her head.
But ⌠Northern Ireland (probably the most important exception).
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The average person is already so disengaged and disenfranchised from politics, that itâll take less than this to make politics something that happens with negligible public scrutiny or involvement - dumbing-down has got us a long way there alreadyâŚ
I think the technologyâs already far more advanced than that laughable marionetteâŚ
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Will that and space, rather the vastness of space/ time itself. All of our radio emissions since Marconi cover a very small volume of our Galaxy . When combined with the likes of a rare earth theory the chances of any two civilisations being able to detect, let alone communicate, with each other remain more than low.
On a cheerier note all complex life will be extinct by 0.1% of the age of the universe, with all life snuffed out by 1% when all light ceases to exist. Drink more beer while you can.
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