Are we all fucked?

[Eoin McLove]

Wow. That is horrific.

[Ollkiller]

Fucking hell. What a sadistic cunt.

[astfgyl]

Tis as bad as anything I've read really outside of the people doing sick shit to human kids

[astfgyl]

All of the trees around chernobyl are growing well these days. Looking at a thing about Pripyat and vegetation is taking over the town as would be expected under normal conditions or in this case, abnormal conditions but still I'd have expected the trees to be dead a bit more

[astfgyl]

We have had this thread going for ages and hardly a mention of ai drones.

What would you do if ai drones came for you and your family tomorrow with the intention of getting rid of you, now that you've become a useless eater after your job became obsolete?

Nothing is what you'd do other than being gotten rid of.

There's no winning and we were fucked long before this thread got going.

Makes me feel small thinking about it. All we have left is hope because we'd wouldn't win like

[The Great Cull]

We have had this thread going for ages and hardly a mention of ai drones.

What would you do if ai drones came for you and your family tomorrow with the intention of getting rid of you, now that you've become a useless eater after your job became obsolete?

Nothing is what you'd do other than being gotten rid of.

There's no winning and we were fucked long before this thread got going.

Makes me feel small thinking about it. All we have left is hope because we'd wouldn't win like

Find John Connor

[John Kimble]

What would you do if ai drones came for you and your family tomorrow with the intention of getting rid of you, now that you've become a useless eater after your job became obsolete?

Dunno, if it was flying low enough I'd probably just swipe it with a broom.

[The Butcher]

Always thought they would eventually use drones for checking roads for speeding and check for people dumping rubbish at common black spots.


https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1859471246737445162?t=NtIt2XV__nEf9q1surS5yw&s=19

Apparently not real time BUT I can totally see this being possible in real time by end of this decade.

Imagine the dystopian police surveillance state future you could have with this kind of tech.

Walking down the street and arrested for never paying TV license 😅

[The Butcher]

https://www.artisan.co/blog/stop-hiring-humans

I'm sure this type of thing won't spawn a few more Luigi Mangiones in the future

[Necro Red]

Always thought they would eventually use drones for checking roads for speeding and check for people dumping rubbish at common black spots.


https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1859471246737445162?t=NtIt2XV__nEf9q1surS5yw&s=19

Apparently not real time BUT I can totally see this being possible in real time by end of this decade.

Imagine the dystopian police surveillance state future you could have with this kind of tech.

Walking down the street and arrested for never paying TV license 😅

very Philip K Dick like Minority Report ha ha

[The Butcher]

very Philip K Dick like Minority Report ha ha

Speaking of -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19814v1

The paper above shows that AI can PREDICT brain activity 5 seconds into the future with near-perfect accuracy using just 21 seconds of fMRI data - insane!   

Once everyone gets their mandatory government chip implanted you'll be automatically 'deactivated' before you even realise you were about to commit a future crime/offend someone 

[leatherface]

The only thing AI is being seriously used for at the moment is by students to think for them and write their papers, or film studios plotting to replace actors entirely. The rest for now, I suppose is governed by  law?.

[The Butcher]

I'd argue that's not true at all and the pace of improvement in the field is staggering. Sure, some of it seems like hype and implementation is slower but make no mistake, America with it's corporate capitalism slant will push on with this now to the detriment (IMO) of society as a whole. Mainly due to the speed/scale of it by 2030 onwards we're going to be looking at totally different world.

Take for example Wendys (fast food chain that's actually coming here soon), remember this improves as time goes on - this is the worst it will be ->

Wendy's is actively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its drive-thru operations through a platform called Wendy's FreshAI, developed in partnership with Google Cloud. This generative AI system is designed to enhance the ordering process by improving speed, accuracy, and consistency. It can understand casual conversation, handle complex menu customizations, and respond to customer inquiries in real-time.

The implementation of Wendy's FreshAI has led to notable improvements. For instance, a test site in Columbus, Ohio, reported service times 22 seconds faster than the local market average. The AI system achieved an accuracy rate of nearly 99%, defined as orders initiated by the AI and submitted to the point-of-sale system, even if human intervention was required for corrections. Without human assistance, the AI successfully handled 86% of orders, a figure expected to improve over time.

There's about 3.6 million people in the fast food industry in the US. If you can knock off 4-8 people per drive-thru that are involved in that process taking orders / cash/card / handing out food etc - then all the other chains will follow.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Nature just published a survey of 5000 researchers about their current and projected uses and views of generative AI yesterday actually:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00343-5

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

As much as AI being able to predict fMRI scans doesn't alarm me, this does:

The human brain may contain up to a spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards...according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.

...

Based on their analysis, the amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024.

The researchers also found much higher levels of microplastics in brain tissue than in liver and kidney tissue. And microplastic concentrations were also higher in the brains of deceased patients who had been diagnosed with dementia compared to the brains of deceased individuals without dementia.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-human-brain-may-contain-as-much-as-a-spoons-worth-of-microplastics-new-research-suggests-180985995/

Original research article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1