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the clock is ticking

2025-08-19 20:10:32.402543+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

When I dropped out of college, I spent hundreds of dollars (thousands in modern dollars) on software books, voraciously reading everything, and I remember reading this line from Weizenbaum on how people adapted to Eliza, and it's worth repeating now:

Thomas 🔭🕹️ @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
―Joseph Weizenbaum

notorious rgb @rgb@cathode.church reminds us of the '90s and a product that I vaguely remember, but less so than Racter:

Do you think if I show an investor a copy of dr sbaitso from the 90s and claim its an LLM they will give me millions of dollars?
https://classicreload.com/play/dr-sbaitso.html

Expanding on yesterday's link that included 'botlickers' and 'Slopholm Syndrome', Erik Uden has a list of slurs for AI users.

Stuart Yeates:

Vendor is pushing webinars about "IgniteAI" and I can't attend because can't trust myself not to ask about burning it all to the water-line.

Greg Wilson @gvwilson@mastodon.social

in March 2025, the CEO of Anthropic said that AI would be writing 90% of code within six months, so, um, look forward to a really big announcement in the next four weeks?
Business Insider · Mar 13 — Anthropic CEO: AI will be writing 90% of code in 3 to 6 months

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