A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes

Post by haolez » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

leetcrew wrote: post #47

davidscolgan wrote: post #34

I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…

maybe so, but I don't think this particular program does anything like AI. glancing at the code, it looks like it just pastes the full text of a reddit comment into a video template, using a different template for each unique commenter in the thread. it no more "does what a human might otherwise do" than how a sorting algorithm might emulate how I sort my socks.

Post by fao_ » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

ta1234567890 wrote: post #48

davidscolgan wrote: post #34

I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…

You are spot on. We are so self-centered that we think an AI superintelligence will be something like a superintelligent-human-mind/person inside a computer, when most likely, it will be nothing like a human and probably completely unrecognizable to us. In fact, I'd argue it's already here and already taken over. Most of us are now enslaved by screens and the Internet, we are addicted to them, even if we don't want t…

Post by sitkack » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

Impossible wrote: post #52

meibo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That wouldn't work, the characters in ace attorney aren't that passive aggressive ;)

You do often win the game by being pedantic and pointing out small issues that didn't have anything to do with the original main testimony, so maybe parent is on to something after all :)

Post by kubanczyk » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 10:42 PM UTC

davidscolgan wrote: post #34

I've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that co…

Post by jwally » Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

fao_ wrote: post #53

ta1234567890 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are spot on. We are so self-centered that we think an AI superintelligence will be something like a superintelligent-human-mind/person inside a computer, when most likely, it will be nothing like a human and probably completely unrecognizable to us. In fact, I'd argue it's already here and already taken over. Most of us are now enslaved by screens and the Internet, we are addicted to them, even if we don't want t…

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