I feel compelled to point out that “back door man” was already a common expression in blues lyrics.

I assume that’s what was being referred to.

Well in that case I’ll have a rum and Coca-Cola.

Haha no it’s a Run the Jewels lyric.

I’ve got a Vonnegut punch for your Atlas Shrugged.

A similar phenomenon is knowing you’re going to need to go back and update some older section of code and when you finally get around to it, it turns out you wrote it that way to begin with. It’s like… I didn’t think I knew about this approach before…

Speed of Sushi-K growth stock

Put U.S. rappers into shock

Yeah but it’s not some big mystery why Margaritaville sucks. The lyrics are asinine and empty. What’s worse: it’s catchy.

“I am gonna get you so many lizards!” Whenever my wife has already done a chore/task I was intending to do.

Plus, it’s a model made before catalytic converters so it runs good on regular gas.

Yes! I remember when they first introduced it and I had to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating that the cursor was blowing up.

You must mean plane-et.

Do you have any theories as to why this is the case? I haven’t gone anywhere near it, so I have no idea. I imagine it’s tied up with the way it processes things from a language-first perspective, which I gather is why it’s bad at math. I really don’t understand enough to wrap my head around why we can’t seem to combine LLM and traditional computational logic.

Y’all know this is photoshopped right? The actual truck probably has half the number of light bars. Totally reasonable.

Metallica.

Edit It’s more like a Zeppelin - Black Sabbath - Metallica gradient.

Katamari Damacy is the first one.

Oh man that’s… Well done, well done!

Points for “sassy robot.” But you could have described it worse. This was the first one I could identify.

My sense in reading the article was not that the author thinks artificial general intelligence is impossible, but that we’re a lot farther away from it than recent events might lead you to believe. The whole article is about the human tendency to conflate language ability and intelligence, and the author is making the argument both that natural language does not imply understanding of meaning and that those financially invested in current “AI” benefit from the popular assumption that it does. The appearance or perception of intelligence increases the market value of AIs, even if what they’re doing is more analogous to the actions of a very sophisticated parrot.

Edit all of which is to say, I don’t think the article is asserting that true AI is impossible, just that there’s a lot more to it than smooth language usage. I don’t think she’d say never, but probably that there’s a lot more to figure out—a good deal more than some seem to think—before we get Skynet.

And I only subscribed because the one-time purchase was not available at that moment, so I assumed no such option existed. But honestly, I’ll continue to pay the subscription. It’s still less than a year’s worth of my monthly donations to the developer of Tasker.