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

[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!

[hosford42@techhub.social]

@sleepy62

It's rare to get something out of Gemini that *doesn't* contain garbage like this.

@Natasha_Jay

[vinterkarusell@saga.garden]

@Natasha_Jay is this the prototype of Claude?

[marcusmasto@mas.to]

@Natasha_Jay

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine, Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.

Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.

Here it is—"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three," Three? Oh me ... I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.