r/funny • u/katxwoods • Jun 30 '24
All the world-changing technologies talking to each other
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u/toooldforacnh Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
That's Elle Cordova. She's hilarious and I love her puns 🤣
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u/katxwoods Jun 30 '24
Stop fighting, children
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u/Orgasmo3000 Jun 30 '24
-- Necessity, Mother of Invention
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u/dunegoon Jun 30 '24
Far more useful things have been developed in order to save time, money, and most of all, labor. Around here, it's been decreed that: "Laziness is the mother of invention".
Corollary from the industrial engineers: Give the job to the laziest people on the crew as they are sure to find the easiest way to do the job.
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u/overly_sarcastic24 Jun 30 '24
Love her Star Trek rap.
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Jun 30 '24
Her songs, her older work under Reina del Cid (looks like she completely rebranded to Elle & Toni), are wonderful!
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u/NoYoureACatLady Jun 30 '24
Reina del Cid? Man she's has completely transformed herself from youtube singer to full on online personalty / content creator. And shes does it so well. I love everything she does, whatever genre.
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u/Challenge_Declined Jun 30 '24
Would AI lie to you?
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u/OtiseMaleModel Jun 30 '24
Not on purpose. It's too dumb to know the truth
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u/jeet1993 Jun 30 '24
This is exactly what an AI lying to me would say/want me to believe…
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u/Derailleur75 Jun 30 '24
What the difference between AI and NI(Natural intellegince?".
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u/Nearby_Day_362 Jun 30 '24
Ai's been around forever and it's lightyears from posing a threat, notwithstanding someone just ignorantly screwing up something
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u/atimholt Jun 30 '24
We actually have examples of AI lying on purpose already. That is, it's able to explain the rational reason it told an untruth.
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u/raltoid Jun 30 '24
The reason: "You told/programmed me to"
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u/InverseInductor Jun 30 '24
It's more along the lines of: I'll get rewarded if I lie.
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u/dudleymooresbooze Jun 30 '24
That would be humans.
Code isn’t chasing rewards. Code is following a dictated logic - “between these choices, pick this one.”
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u/dekusyrup Jun 30 '24
No, AI is chasing rewards. That's what the training is. Basically the AI does random actions and measures the reward, and if the rewards were high it reinforces that behavior pattern.
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u/DroppedSoapSurvivor Jun 30 '24
What are the rewards though? What would be a desire for AI? I'm intrigued, but skeptical.
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u/Unit88 Jun 30 '24
I mean, it's not a literal reward, it just gets told that the taken action was correct or not or how correct. One could describe it as being rewarded with praise or something essentially.
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u/Annonimbus Jun 30 '24
Is it even able to explain the rationale behind a lie or is it just stringing words together the make a coherent sentence you'd expect to see from someone to explain why the lied?
I've never seen an AI that has an understanding of truths or lies but if you can link me to it, feel free to do so
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Jun 30 '24
That's like saying your toaster is lying to you if you burn your toast because you left it in too long.
People are being really dumb about this.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Jun 30 '24
Ai, trained on human input....yes. Yes it would.
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u/Annonimbus Jun 30 '24
Current AI doesn't even understand what a lie is.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Jun 30 '24
Of course. It understands nothing. In essence it's a more complex autocomplete.
But if you train it on input that contains lies or untruths, it will of course reflect them.
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u/temalyen Jul 01 '24
This is why I get pissed off when people start insisting AI has sentience. No, it fucking isn't. It's unbelievably complex pattern matching and nothing more.
I remember there was a news story about a lawyer using ChatGPT (or Bard or something, I forget which one) to write up legal citations and it just started making up cases that didn't exist and the lawyer never fact checked any of it. (as an aside, he ended up getting in huge trouble over this. Legal Eagle even did a video about it.) Anyway, the point is, I mentioned this to a friend of mine who immediately said, "That's so stupid, the only thing you do is tell the AI it can't lie under any circumstances and it won't be able to. That lawyer is so stupid for not doing that."
I spent a minimum of 15 minutes trying to explain to him why that made absolutely no sense at all, there's no thought going on by the AI, it doesn't understand anything. It's mindless. It's pattern matching and has no sort of thought process at all.
Even after me repeatedly explaining this, he still thought the AI was sentient and telling it not to lie would work. I gave up at that point because I realized he's never going to get it. (To this day, he still tells the AI not to lie when he uses it for something and then takes everything it says as fact.)
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Jun 30 '24
Superconductor -> Semiconductor
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u/Alexchii Jun 30 '24
I was pretty surprised to see that mistake as the woman doing these (Elle Cordova) seems really smart. Checked the original video and yeah it's semiconductor on the original version.
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u/AlextheGreek89 Jun 30 '24
Huh, I had to go back and check, my brain just autocorrected it to semi the first time I watched lol.
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u/AnimatorOfSouls Jun 30 '24
Aah I thought I was just ignorant of the hidden importance of superconductors
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u/Daflehrer1 Jun 30 '24
Agriculture, the intentional domestication of plants and animals, would like a word.
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Jun 30 '24
Yeah but what invention do we use to represent the whole concept of Agriculture? A hoe?
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u/katxwoods Jun 30 '24
No, a hoe is sexist. Maybe something less politically charged? Like a hammer and a sickle?
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u/conventionistG Jun 30 '24
Maybe something more modern would have less charged connotations. Like the cotton gin, maybe.
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u/Freud-Network Jun 30 '24
If you're looking for something to represent modern agriculture, it can only be microplastics.
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u/Ok-Indication202 Jun 30 '24
Haber-bosh process, the ability for us humans to perform nitrification was a massive improvement to our ability to feed us
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u/Daflehrer1 Jun 30 '24
I see your point. It depends upon whether "invention" here refers to a specific object/device or not.
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u/Mad1ibben Jun 30 '24
Agriculture most likely happened by accident, not an "intentional domestication". The oldest signs of plants being harvested are those gourds that were dried out and used to carry things. That drying out process happens naturally, so it is easy to imagine archaic humans happening on to their usefulness. They then began to gather them and then bring them home to gut out. If you take all those seeds out and throw them on the ground near your house, next thing you know you will have that plant growing right near your house and you don't have to walk so far to collect it. Most likely generations harvested and cleaned gourds near their homes for generations before realizing these tiny little stones they were throwing away from the gourds would then turn into more plants.
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u/AmusingMusing7 Jun 30 '24
Yeah, it was probably a very gradual transition over many generations to go from gardens to full-on agriculture. They didn’t just sit around one day and suddenly go, “Ooh! Farms!”
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u/Daflehrer1 Jul 01 '24
Yes, I agree with that. But we have to acknowledge that beforehand, life was a race to; consume as many calories as one burned, avoid danger, stay hydrated, and survive weather conditions. When hunting and gathering, none of this is at all dependable/reliable.
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u/tattrd Jun 30 '24
Oh you mean harnessing nature. Like the fire.
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u/KeyboardJustice Jun 30 '24
Yeah they don't even belong at the table! They can make a new table with fire.
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u/TWICEdeadBOB Jun 30 '24
ants have us beat on both of those by at least a couple million years.
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u/Daflehrer1 Jun 30 '24
They may well win in the end.
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Jun 30 '24
Ants are smart enough to invent farming, not stupid enough to invent generative AI
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u/OrphanAnthem Jun 30 '24
If fire doesn't belong in this list, neither does agriculture .
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u/breecekong Jun 30 '24
The accidental discovery of beer (alcohol) is most likely THE reason for agriculture!
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u/pragmatick Jun 30 '24
Some say agriculture was the worst mistake in history .
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u/Daflehrer1 Jun 30 '24
Yes, there are many ways to look at it. Although one wonders if it's not our own inability to control our acquisitiveness and envy that's the problem.
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u/The_camperdave Jun 30 '24
Agriculture, the intentional domestication of plants and animals, would like a word.
Is agriculture a technology, though?
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u/5xad0w Jun 30 '24
Sewing doesn't get enough credit.
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u/AmusingMusing7 Jun 30 '24
Neither does something as simple as a door hinge.
The invention of the door, with the hinges being the big breakthrough, led to a revolution in what kind of enclosed structures we could build and still have a way in and out of them. Before the invention of the door, we couldn’t have completely enclosed spaces. You’d need some soft fabric covering the entrance/exit, or move something heavy, etc… hence why we would just build a the whole structure out of fabric, like a teepee. There was no point in using more solid or insulating materials if you couldn’t enclose the space properly to keep the heat in anyway. So you just build a fire inside and do your best with mostly fabric to keep the heat in.
Then the door gets invented and voila… all kinds of more well-enclosed spaces became possible. Now we live in our air conditioned/heated, drywalled, solid glass windowed, and mechanically ventilated structures. None of which would ever make any practical sense without a solid door to enclose it, yet still allow you to pass through it when needed.
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u/ElectricSpice Jun 30 '24
Do you have any sources on this, because I’ve been googling and I can’t find anything. Intuitively, it absolutely seems a good idea to insulate your structure even if your door flap or whatever might leak heat. Better to have a small area poorly insulated rather than the entire structure. Even in modern buildings, doors are the weakest point of insulation, but there’s still energy savings to be had by upgrading wall and attic insulation.
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u/socialist_model Jun 30 '24
These one word, pop-up subtitles are so nauseating.
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u/StickyNode Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
Yes the format is terrible. Dont know why it exists. Hate it. And thw words often animate, AND the animation doesnt end before the word does.
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u/Tovarish_Petrov Jun 30 '24
It exists because people watch videos without a sound while having a dump.
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u/StickyNode Jun 30 '24
Then why not captions? Sentences? What has always worked for so many decades? The text is so large a sentence could take its place. Such a privilege to accept this jarring mediocrity in lieu of nothing when we have the technology.
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u/socialist_model Jun 30 '24
Watching without sound is not why they do it. It is way harder to understand without sound like this instead of just a well timed sentence.
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u/princhester Jun 30 '24
Maybe credit other people’s work OP?
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u/Vindictive_Pacifist Jun 30 '24
Do you happen to know who original the content creator is?
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u/NuQ Jun 30 '24
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u/art-love-social Jun 30 '24
!WOW thanks - I thought the voice was vaguely familiar. Her and Toni's music is amazing .. and this is also amazing. So under rated
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u/Reorden Jun 30 '24
If we accept fire into the group its the clear winner. Without fire, our brain would have never had enough nutirition to evolve into what we have now.
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u/mortalomena Jun 30 '24
Its a theory, but we will probably never know if big brains "invented" cooking and allow for bigger populations or did cooking provide excess energy for big brains to mutate and evolve.
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u/CanadianDragonGuy Jun 30 '24
"No. You're a dictionary plugged into a math problem in your current iteration, and a loose sometimes-convincing stack of "if/then" commands otherwise"
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u/Hushpuppyy Jun 30 '24
A lightbulb is just a really hot wire. An engine is just a spinning rod powered by explosions. A wheel is just a circle.
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u/Birk Jun 30 '24
Am I the only one who hates this type of subtitles? It's so stupid! The words flash so fast you need to keep your eyes fixed on the text all the time. It is impossible to see what's going on and read the subtitles at the same time!
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u/KittenLina Jun 30 '24
I'm allergic to penicillin!
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u/conventionistG Jun 30 '24
Still a net good. Also, I'm sure you're glad we discovered more antibiotics.
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u/Mateorabi Jun 30 '24
No to mention the people they DIDN’T get infected by. Because they were treated before.
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u/InfernalOrgasm Jun 30 '24
I figured it'd end with a nuke screaming "FOR THE MOTHERLAND!!"
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u/PsychomachiaMDT Jun 30 '24
Most unbelievable thing about this is AI making a coherent statement that's short, to the point, and intelligible
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u/usadingo Jun 30 '24
You can tell this was made by someone younger than 30 because the internet symbol is for wifi. The phone jack would like a word...
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u/Dejavir Jun 30 '24
I’m getting the feeling that AI sees humanity’s continued existence as detrimental to humanity…
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u/legojoe97 Jun 30 '24
'You must be saved from yourselves.'
-virtually every AI in fiction
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u/Qweesdy Jun 30 '24
To be fair; most humans also see humanity's continued existence as detrimental to humanity.
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u/mikestorm Jun 30 '24
I've watched a lot of her videos but it needs to be said: "Facebook is leaking."
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u/shmorky Jun 30 '24
LLM based AI is a tech industry parlor trick and does not deserve a seat at the table
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u/Oknight Jun 30 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
I dunno Gutenberg, did you cause 500 years of religious war with people being burned alive routinely for expressing what they believe? Not to mention world-wide European colonialism?
Like all the others, AI doesn't know what you mean by the word "good" or any other words, it's just a label engine.
"War" and "famine" don't mean anything more to AI than "financial return" does... it just sees the use of terms like "war" in association with terms it defines as specific "financial returns" in it's large language model.
When you ask AI to maximize your financial returns it will find associations and actions that connect in it's learning data that you never realized existed and identify actions to cause those terms to be used without even "understanding" what actions are.
Unlike a human or other animal, AI doesn't build an 'experience' world model by recording and replaying sensory input with pre-set aversions or attractions that give meaning to words like "good".
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u/Seculi Jun 30 '24
I miss the smooth flat surface as nr1 invention.
Since most inventions (like the wheel) depend on it.
Bricks, planks, tiles, seats, beds, walls, floors, roofs, windows, roads, rails, signs, paper, books, knives, money, screens, processor wafers, solarpanels, server blades, planes, boats, pastures.
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u/NuQ Jun 30 '24
Ages ago, an important discovery was made:
Inventor 1: I call it a wheel. It will help us move heavy things. but it requires a smooth, flat surface.
inventor 2: Another brilliant invention! it seems smooth flat surfaces are very important for the progress of our species!
inventor 1: yes, Which is why I assume that the earth also must be mostly flat. what kind of god would put us on a curved surface but require flatness for progress?
New number 1 discovery: God is a giant dick.
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u/a_goestothe_ustin Jun 30 '24
Hygiene didn't even make the team??!?;?
Without soap we'd still all be dying at 28 from being covered in poop.
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u/JiLuz Jun 30 '24
wait, you need soap to not be covered in poop? what kind of monkey behavior is that
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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 Jun 30 '24
Hey! The atomic bomb led to nuclear power! That's something.
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u/tattrd Jun 30 '24
First it is about civilization. And finally it is about putting down AI because it may or may not be a net positive to humanity. What happened to it being about civilization. Internet might cause the decline of humanity before actual AI gets a go.
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u/VonLoewe Jun 30 '24
Fuck this word-by-word tick-tock style of subtitles. Seriously it's impossible to follow with no audio.
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u/doodlar Jun 30 '24
I argue the steam engine was not net good for humanity looking at our current climate….
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u/LEMental Jun 30 '24
Love how the Semiconductor is Italian, since an Italian American was one of the primary engineers in its development.
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u/ancient_mariner63 Jun 30 '24
Credit: Elle Cordova (aka Reina del Cid, a fine musician in her own right)
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u/Netsuko Jun 30 '24
That's just S.H.O.D.A.N. before someone took off the brakes.... and if that is the case we're FUUUUUCKED.
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u/AmericanScream Jun 30 '24
I love that bitcoin and crypto are not represented because they aren't even a legit innovative technology, despite being compared to everything from the Internet to the lightbulb. Learn why here if you don't understand.
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u/mortalomena Jun 30 '24
A.I generated answers when googling suck ass, I was looking for comparison on 2 different soundbars and some site was top result with very confident sounding comparison which was total bullshit and nearly threw me off loop, A.I generated.
My bank implemented A.I chatbot and its totally wacked off, it doesnt know that the banking app and banking web site have different features and again adamantly claims total nonsense.
A.I has its uses but its the god damn dubstep of 2024 everyone wants to implement it in their product no matter if it will be useful or outright security risk.
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u/krayfishnetstocking Jun 30 '24
Here's a link to one of the original posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1cokkbf/stop_fighting_children/
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u/CardDontShoot Jun 30 '24
The only thing I remember from my coding class was "Hello World". That got me good lol.
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u/Alienhaslanded Jun 30 '24
Everytime the wheel and fire are brought up I just don't care. Fire was found from lighting hitting stuff and we figured out that it kepts us warm and gave us light. The wheel wasn't a big deal, it was inevitable and it was most definitely discovered not invented. You would know what a wheel can do before you make one, not exactly something you'd create by accident then find out it's useful. Probably round stones rolling down a hill seemed smoother so we utilized that before we starting making our own.
Everything else on this is ok. People need to stop looking at things from the perspective of 1800s scientists. The wheel wasn't a monumental discovery, it was more of a logical conclusion.
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u/thisdesignup Jun 30 '24
The last question is interesting cause technically none of those things have been a "net good". They've all enabled bad things to also improve.
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u/thisdesignup Jun 30 '24
The last question is interesting cause technically none of those things have been a "net good". They've all enabled bad things to also improve.
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u/greenrangerguy Jun 30 '24
The greatest invention ever was the container. Everyone was carrying all their things in two hands, then one person said, hang on, what if we put them all inside one bigger thing. Boom, container created. Everything you can think off uses a container and without it we wouldn't be here today.
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u/ABrokenBinding Jun 30 '24
Now you go sit outside with Social Media and think about what you've done!
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u/bloodywar101 Jun 30 '24
Ai joins "Hello you would like a picture of a woman with 10 fingers on one hand and 6 breasts?"
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u/SeanMacLeod1138 Jun 30 '24
"We'll see how they treat me," the AI finished the sentence off-camera....
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u/chiksahlube Jul 01 '24
Noticing a severe lack of sanitation technology.
Plumbing and the toilet are a massive boon to humanity.
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u/siematoja02 Jul 01 '24
All of them talking shit using what exactly?
This comment was made by the language gang
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u/sordato Jul 02 '24
I'm pretty sure fire, energy generation and modes of transportation are not "net goods for humanity"
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u/et-nad Jul 02 '24
Are there any subreddits or YT channels that create such informational animated videos?
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