Me, a fool: "All this cyberpunk and sci-fi about computers being inscrutable machines with a mind of their own was just boomers getting frustrated with a command line UI in the 80s."
Me, a fool: "All this cyberpunk and sci-fi about computers being inscrutable machines with a mind of their own was just boomers getting frustrated with a command line UI in the 80s."
Actual techbros today: "Alright so we've figured out that if you ask the inscrutable machine to do a good job and recite the rote chant of praise and you ritually beg it not to do a bad job, this increases the chances that the literal nonsense it spews forth from its inscrutable depths will be usable. Also we're using this to make the internet completely unusable by any but the most dedicated and well trained, by competing for ad dollars with our mountains of literal nonsense."
Soon we'll be rubbing our computers with oil to appease the machine spirit inside
pff, we've been there for decades... "wave a dead chicken at it" is an ancient meme.
It used to take whole teams of engineers to create software that was inscrutable to a human. Now you can merge some language models together overnight and have an exciting new unknowable thing!