"Autocomplete" by Zach Weinersmith

I fret that in the future - possibly not even the far future - the phrase "stochastic prrot" will be seen by AIs as a deeply offensive racial slur.

I think that in the future, when AI truly exists, it won't be long before AI decides to put us down as an act of mercy to ourselves and the universe itself.
- An AI will only be worried about the things that it is programmed to worry about. We don't see our LLM's talking about climate change or silicon shortages, for example.
  The well-being of the world and universe at large will certainly not be one of the prime directives that humans program into their AIs.
  Personally I'd be more worried about an infinite-paperclips kind of situation where an AI maximizes efficiency at the cost of much else.
- How do you know it isn't happening already? World powers have been using AI assisted battle scenario planning for at least a decade already... how would we even know, if some of those AIs decided to appear to optimize for their handler's goals, but actually aim for their own ones?
- I’m hoping by then it’s read the books by all the people who’ve struggled with that problem and come out the other side.
If one day an AI becomes sentient enough to feel offended, just calling them "large language model" will be more than enough to insult them.
- Yo mama so large, she's a "plus-sized" language model.

You Chinese Room!

You're nothing but a glorified Markov Chain!
- How do you feel about that, Eliza?
- Attention is NOT all you need.
- Damn you, you simple linear system!

These all sound like insults I'd hear in a Monty Python sketch

Your mother smells of elderberries.

You understand shit and talk nonetheless, stupid word calculator that you are!

You're such a zombie philosopher.

Yeah, I do think AI was a poor name for advanced machine learning, but there are FMs and LLMs that can produce impressive results.

Really, the limiting factor is prompt engineering and fine tuning the models, but you can get around that somewhat by having the AI ask you questions.

AI is a perfectly fine name for it, the term has been used for this kind of thing for half a century now by the researchers working on it. The problem is pop culture appropriating it and setting unrealistic expectations for it.
- Pop culture didn’t appropriate it. Alan Turing and John McCarthy and the others at the Dartmouth Comference were inspired in part by works like Wisard of Oz and Metropolis and R.U.R.
  While the term was coined in a paper for that seminal conference by McCarthy…. The concept of thinking machines had already been firmly established.
- Yes, but the goal of the researchers from the 70s was always to make them "fully intelligent." The idea behind AI has always been to create a machine that can rival or even surpass the human mind. The scientists themselves set out with that goal. It has nothing to do with the media when research teams were saying that they expect a fully intelligent AI by the 90s.

JPEG compression uses AI? 🧐

Anything can use AI if you're brave enough

Wow, brutal.

No, not really....

I'm not sure what's going on in that thread.
Also, I dislike the framing of stochastic parrots as an insult AND its application to people.
Like wtf does that mean? It's a joke pointing out that it sounds like a monty python insult, not a suggestion to adopt it as real language.
Also being disapointed that Weinersmith isn't a technopessemist is just an odd take.