I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@Artists_Ali So this is the latest grift?

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@Artists_Ali i mean, The Black Cloud was only written [checks notes] seventy years ago, you can't expect people to have actually learned from it yet...

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@Artists_Ali And yes, of course I know the similarity is a bit far-fetched; today's "scientists" are not even suggesting plugging into anything remotely intelligent...

[rednikki@toot.boston]

@Artists_Ali This sounds like an AI executive that has done a LOT of coke.

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden makes me think of the chapter from sandman where a man was punished by given too many ideas

[oldfartrant@mstdn.ca]

@Artists_Ali these AI creeps are absolutely nuts. If a brain is connected to a computer, it could be controlled by that computer. This is how the Borg will be created.

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@renardboy @Artists_Ali honestly the difficult thing isn't coming up with ideas it's figuring out how to make them work, and then actually executing on it.

In the right context literally any idea can work well.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@StaticR @Artists_Ali very true, but then any meaningful ability to do that stuff is acquired by experience, which is also kind of a trial and error process.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@Artists_Ali For a breakdown, of those "1000 times more thoughts", about 30% are cat videos playing on repeat, 10% are songs randomly starting to play in your mind, and about 60% are remembering that one time you were awkward 10 to 20 years ago and still beating yourself up over it as every other soul on this wet rock floating in space forgot about it

[syphist@zoner.work]

@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden I have 3 minds in my head and they are all AuDHD. Can confirm this is a terrible idea.

[rachel@zoner.work]

@syphist @Artists_Ali@sunny.garden I mean, subjecting the rest of the internet to Chelle would be pretty funny...

[dhobern@scicomm.xyz]

@Artists_Ali

I think anyone who thinks this is a good idea should immediately fit a USB port above one of their ears.

[ruxbat@jorts.horse]

@Artists_Ali @chirpbirb I was a “put my brain into a jar a wire me up” guy until I learned about capitalism and boy let me tell ya

[ophis@brain.worm.pink]

@itsmaya @sinvega @Artists_Ali maybe it'll actually improve them (explode lethally)

[itsmaya@social.treehouse.systems]

@ophis @sinvega @Artists_Ali that's the power of positive thinking

[anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com]

@Artists_Ali

Yeah, right.

1,000 thoughts, and 800 of them about banging the hot blonde super-racked MILF next door.

Thanks, but my old brain can barely handle 10 thoughts; I'd rather not have my head spinning full Bettlejuice like an EF5 tornado from having to handle 1,000.

[joshmillard@mastodon.social]

@Artists_Ali @macmanx hear me out tho, what if we can pipe our current thoughts to /dev/null

[paculino@tech.lgbt]

@Artists_Ali But in this scenario, 999 will be sponsored/ads while one is simply a manipulated product.

[arclight@oldbytes.space]

@Artists_Ali My brain is too noisy as it is. Why the hell would I flood it with random mediocre thoughts averaged over a training set? If I wanted that I'd watch network television.

[mamalake@beige.party]

@Artists_Ali more time to literally put their noggins in their hands and say, “ahhhgggr, what’s that word? I can’t remember!” (Speaking from experience watching a friend in real time lose cognition)