Shel Silverstein poem published in 1981 …. Hmm does this remind you of anything topically relevant to today?

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay Nobody would be interested in such a stupid contraption.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@Natasha_Jay

So the Machine makers decided to make all machines say that 3
Is the sum of 4 and three more 3s
Now we all crawl
to go through doors, or kneel
And our cars have one
Stupid square wheel.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@Natasha_Jay The first chatbot ever was developed by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. It was called ELIZA.

[sam_bass@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

EiAi0

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay

https://www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

"the media — and the world at large — is too ready to accept the prospect of a bailout after watching those who drove the world into a ditch in 2008 escape blame, and I must be clear: the AI industry is very different to the financial industry. It is inessential to the economy, and its relevance is only as large as the hype campaign that sits behind it."

[radish@woof.tech]

@Natasha_Jay
Read this to the tune of "Particle Man"

[jendefer@dice.camp]

@Netraven @Natasha_Jay I remember we had ELIZA on our Commodore 64 in the 1980s when I was a kid. Lots of non-consequential responses.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@jendefer @Natasha_Jay in my opinion, the chatbots today haven't changed much.

[sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net]

@Natasha_Jay

Ha Ha.. Here is a bit of Matrix Algebra from Gemini just today.

[steaphan@indieauthors.social]

@Natasha_Jay not only do I get where you are going with this, when I was a kid I wrote an illustrated book about a homework machine and got a young authors award for it...too funny (and not funny)

[raven67@zirk.us]

@Natasha_Jay

[jadetopaz_95@awawa.club]

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt authors from decades ago predicting literally everything will never fail to amaze me

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@Netraven @jendefer @Natasha_Jay ELIZA was a great improvement on its successors.

[david@fouroclockfarms.club]

@Npars01 @Natasha_Jay I do wish Ed's posts weren't so lengthly... but worth it.

[erraggy@hachyderm.io]

@Natasha_Jay OMG, I had his where the sidewalk ends as a child and totally remember this poem. It's so wild to be reminded of it in our time. Thanks for sharing

[iveyline@mastodon.nz]

@Natasha_Jay Obviously he knew AI was coming! What a wonderful and foresightful poem.

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@david @Npars01 @Natasha_Jay WHY ARE THEY SO LONG!!
(I can't do it. I tried.)

[naomielizabeth@chaosfem.tw]

@Natasha_Jay

[mir@ice.ch3.st]

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt should have shown the other side of the illustration, where there's just another kid sitting inside the machine scribbling the answers. this too is topical

[david@fouroclockfarms.club]

@colinstu @Npars01 @Natasha_Jay he has logorrhea!