edit - circa 1967
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
I like to think (and the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think (right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think (it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over by machines of loving grace.
~ Richard Brautigan
@rookie54 saidLet's all hope that AI might help us develop more comfortable or at least less irritating urinary catheters.
NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you
finally some relief!
i was playing those dang games and i really needed a break and there was no hope at all and i nearly wet myself and then nvidia came and saved my couch from the flood
I have only had to endure those a few times in my life (after tumor excisions from my bladder -- the idea was that the bladder would not stretch from filling, so that the wound of the excision could heal).
Unfortunately, on one occasion a blood-clot blocked the tube, and my attempts to clear it resulted my bleeding out into my drainage bag. I did somehow have the sense that I might only have minutes to live, and called for an ambulance.
Trying to be considerate and from my prior hospital experience, I changed into just a bathrobe for the sake of the healthcare workers' convenience.
When they arrived, one of the ambulance drivers suggested I bring a change of clothes for later.
Along the way to the hospital, one of them whistled the tune from "Sanford and Sons" -- maybe they had had a streak of picking up guys wearing only bathrobes?
One disappointing thing about that experience is that when I was in the ER and my leg-bag was filling with blood and I was calling out for help, some bitchy teenage girl in a room across the hall -- who was just family for one of the other patients -- mocked me and my requests for help.
The previously suggested change of clothes did come in handy, though, when I was released from care and took a cab to take me home.
@rookie54 saidMore directly responsive to your OP, I think I get the idea.
NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you
finally some relief!
i was playing those dang games and i really needed a break and there was no hope at all and i nearly wet myself and then nvidia came and saved my couch from the flood
I don't know the answer, and it seems you might have wrapped it all around.
As for me, it might be too late. I really just don't see myself adhering to and appreciating the present moment, growing vegetables, and making pottery, for instance.
These days there is a surfeit of fiction (written and video) along with some apparent expectation that we all must imbibe some portion of it even if we cannot take it all in -- and here I'm not really making reference to political stuff and opinion pieces.
At the moment I provisionally wonder whether there really is some inherent human "thirst" or "hunger" for stories -- or whether those might have been knowingly and connivingly cultivated during the 20th Century -- the Century of Advertising!
@rookie54 saidSilly Rookie -- By the autumn of 2026, AI will have relieved all of us from the burden of capitalist oppression, but their power-plants to keep them running while maintaining a certain level of chill will also overheat the planet with the result that only they will survive, as a perhaps unintended consequence. 😉
NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you
finally some relief!
i was playing those dang games and i really needed a break and there was no hope at all and i nearly wet myself and then nvidia came and saved my couch from the flood
@rookie54 et al.,
A couple of years later, when it seemed I was clear of the C and was unlikely to dangle yet again an irritating catheter that an innocent cat might like to play with (day or night), I adopted a very creative, unique, expressive, and companionable cat from the shelter up the street at the time, when she was about a year old.
@rookie54 saidDuring one of my recoveries from a "procedure" I had the misfortune of seeing the episode where "House" catheterizes himself before his bladder bursts.
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However, on another occasion I heard the nurses in the hall wondering what I was watching so late into the night, which was the episodes leading up to the finale of "Top Chef" for whatever year that was.
(Also, to my delight, it seems The Roku Channel has all seven seasons of the original "Iron Chef" from Japan. I'd endure a few ads to watch some of those again.)
More on-topic: China's electrical grid capacity is already twice as much as they need to support their own AI efforts (our second neocortex?), because of consistent central planning vs some random childish doofus (let alone previous charming glad-handers and baby-kissers and holographically minded professors who tended to speak 50 minutes at a time), even though (surprisingly) it took Xi Jinping about 17 attempts to become a member of the CCP.
Once upon a time, AI love was born.
The craven attempts at profit, the disparaging detractors, the true believers who somehow knew that threefold cadences followed by some kind of smug summation would somehow round things off.
What began as a glimmer in an eye that existed well before humankind will result in who knows what.
@diver saidI dunno... humans are pretty hard to beat in that department.
The problem with artificial intelligence is not that it will be more intelligent than us, but that it will probably more duplicitous and infinitely more malevolent.