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machinefey ¡ 16 days ago
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64735012/chapters/170929687
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Guess who just finished chapter 7 of the Thadfic.
I hope you like my clippy meme I made in honor of it!
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darcyolsson ¡ 3 months ago
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in loving memory of tumblr's april fools' pranks 💐 2014 - 2024
icymi, tumblr used to do an elaborate april fool's prank every year, but this year they suddenly stopped. here's a somewhat detailed recap of everything they did over the decade:
2013 - mishapocalypse (honourable mention): tumblr staff didn’t start doing april fools until 2014, but the mishapocalypse happened on tumblr in 2013 and i feel like this list would be incomplete without it
2014 - tumblrpro: upon opening your dash you were greeted by an “inspirational” video, that ended with the option to get “tumblrpro (for free)”. all it did was put a top hat on your icon.
2015 - tumblr executivesuite/coppy: a copying machine appeared in the corner of your dash. it would offer tips on how to use tumblr, like clippy the paperclip used to do in microsoft word. as the day went on, it slowly broke down and died right in front of your eyes. many people hated him (but not me). you could also make a (small) spreadsheet. @executivesuite2016 is the official blog.
2016 - this is decision/lizard election/tumblrdecides: a parody of the 2016 US elections. there were 4 lizards (well, one of them turned out to be a salamander in a scandal) to vote for. the dash looked different and there was a live news report with election updates, as well as an election blog for each lizard. they all had their own slogans and you would get an "i voted" button after you voted that would get slapped next to your icon. there were built-in functions to make an election poster for your favourite lizard and to create a text post that supported your lizard of choice that autogenerated a statement for all your followers to read. imo tumblr’s april fools peak. @thisisdecision2016-blog is the official blog, @mop-2016-blog @wretchedtooth @timefordeborah-blog were candidates. rick also had a blog (rick-official) but that now seems to have vanished because he ended up dropping out of the election. mop won, if you're curious. by far the most elaborate prank tumblr ever did.
2017 - horse friend: a tamagotchi-inspired game where you had to take care of a little horse in the corner of your screen. it came with a randomly generated name, and you had to feed and clean up after it. if you didnt take good care of it, it died. you could then hatch (yes, hatch) a new one. there was also an option to look at the names of all your dead horses. this is now available to buy in the tumblr shop. @horse-friends is the official blog.
2018 - tumblcoin: a parody of cryptocurrency (this was the year bitcoin took off). you could ‘invest’ in tumblcoin, with which you could in turn buy things with to spice up your dash, including last year’s horse friend, coppy from 2015, and a frame for around your icon. you could share the amount of tumblcoin you owned in an automatically generated gif post which would be tagged #tbc2018 and #tumblcoin. @tumblcoin is the official blog.
2019 - @memories: this blog still functions the way it did on april fools itself! it's like mad libs, where it takes post templates and then adds in tags you use a lot and users you frequently interact with on your main blog. like a personalized shitpost bot.
2020 - group chat prank/@storybot: it was so hard to find info on this because it was contained entirely in the now-defunct group chat function, which no one used. i had to go through the notes of this post for information because no one cared enough to actually write anything explaining it. turns out, you could write a story with your mutuals by adding storybot to your group chat. it also kept working after april fools (well, up until the group chats were deleted) just like memories. many people missed out on it entirely because they did not use the group chat function.
2021 - tumblcryptids: tumblr allowed you to adopt “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. clicking a button that said "Summon thy Tumblrcryptid" would spawn an image of a little blob-shaped creature with a short description, which would always read "Hi! My name is [randomly generated name]. I love [thing most people like]. I hate [thing most people dislike]. Like my parent, I can't get enough of #[tag from your main blog]." you could share them in a post, which would automatically add the tag #NFTumblcryptids to your post. and yes, people on the piss on the poor website freaked out about it because they thought they were real NFTs harming the environment. @tumblcryptidadoptioncenter is the official blog.
2022 - click-a-thon: when you clicked a light switch on your dashboard, a bunch of colourful things showed up, like a sponge you could move around, an "engagament meter", clickable buttons, and a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when you clicked it. you could. the crabs, like horse friend, are still available in the tumblr store as of 2025. here's some screenshots. there were various ways to share your crab activities, which would all get tagged #april fools 2022. the prank was presented as a marketing technique created by Brick Whartley, a fictional businessman character created by tumblr, who (afaik) originated in a post on the official blog of the 2018 april fools prank, albeit originally in a different role. around this time he also started functioning as the mascot for tumblr's shop ( @emporium )
2023 - abstract reactions (emoji reacts): buttons were added to every post that allowed you to add emoji reactions, many of them based on tumblr inside jokes (horse as a reference to horse plinko/horse friend, vanilla for the vanilla extract meme, pikaman, bug for bug race, and brick whartley, who wasn't a meme but staff really wanted him to be). if one specific emoji was used a certain amount of times it would add an effect to the post, eg many cheese emoji reacts would cover the post in cheese. this was also attributed to Brick Whartley ("his" blog @brickwhartley also documented the day)
2024 - boop-o-meter: allowed you to “boop” other users who had opted in to the booping, like facebook’s poke feature back in the day. depending on how long you held the button, you would either boop, super boop, or evil boop. on the dashboard there was a counter for both how many times you had booped others and how many times others had booped you, as well as how many boops were given side-wide. when booping someone, an image of a cat paw appeared. you would get badges (which can still be used) for booping 1, 100 and 1000 times. if you gave/received more than 999 boops, the counter would switch to showing a three-letter word (see this post for specifics). this was brought back for halloween 2024 (as BOOp-o-meter. get it), with a ghost, skeleton and mummy paw. no official blog, but here's an official recap for april first from staff. i believe this was the only april fools prank that was mobile user friendly.
2025 - @fandom is running some polls, i guess
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canisalbus ¡ 14 days ago
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I mean this in the most loving way, your sketches of Bald Machete immediately reminded me of Clippy from Microsoft Word 😭
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this, too, is a miserable catholic hound
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ao3robin215 ¡ 7 months ago
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Years ago, I used Grammarly to proof read my shit. English is not my first language, so things like "in" and "on" are fuckin hard.
But with the ai stuff, I stopped using it.
Yesterday, I tried a couple of alternatives and they're the shittiest shit I've used. Making nonsense corrections and knowing less English than I do.
So, fuck it, Clippy and I (yes, I write with old word cuz I ain't paying Microsoft to steal my writing) are gonna be tight af from now on.
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1999babi ¡ 9 months ago
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clippy from microsoft word
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orwellsunderpants ¡ 11 months ago
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Image is the clippy paperclip character from Microsoft Word. A speech bubble above clippy reads "Would you like some help bringing the entire world to a standstill?"
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temporalbystander ¡ 5 months ago
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So random thought just hit me. Midna from Twilight Princess is an anagram of Admin. Sure it's a coincidence and her name is supposed to be a reference to midnight which is also connected to the twili, aka twilight, which also foreshadows her role as queen as midnight is like the ultimate shadow. However my mind then made the connection from Midna/Admin to the companion everyone calls a robot Fi, some even making a Wi-Fi joke with her. And that got me thinking, Midna tells you what to do, she talks down on you a lot, rides around while you do all the work like an admin. But... More than that, you have to go around upgrading her powers, she allows you to operate in places you normally couldn't, allows you to cut and paste pieces of the world and allows you to teleport. She's basically giving you admin powers with the game being the operating system!
But then I really went crazy. Now everyone has already made the connection between Fi and ai (especially since she has a literal search mode using statistics) but, as much as I loved her, people found her annoying. Now who else did I like but others found annoying? Navi. Now not only is her name a reference to navigation (like oh, I don't know, a sat nav.) but why do people dislike her? Because she pops up multiple times, doesn't shut up until you click on her, tells you things you already know and is mostly useless when you are stuck, only serving as a reminder of where you left off... Guys. Navi is Clippy the paper clip. A worse version without a search bar sure but combine that with the whole "you have to update" or "Microsoft word is blah blah blah" that used to pop up despite being able to continue without issue once you click the X.
Oh but I'm not done. Tatl from Majora's mask? Basically just Navi but updated to pop up less often like a browser assistant you need to click on to activate. King of Red lions? Is LITERALLY tech you upgrade with other parts for a "smoother" ride with Linebeck serving the same purpose in phantom hourglass. Breath of the wild? Literally gives you a tablet with programs that allow you to essential hack physics and tears of the kingdom is the same but with a literal copy, save, paste and move through ceilings hack.
Speaking of copy and paste? Literally the echoes in echoes of wisdom. And when you dive in? You're essentially going into the recycling bin and restoring old data. You can even "run" as Link.
Still not done though. Minish cap? Literally minimises you, Zelda in spirit tracks? Literally hacks enemies once you've created a vulnerability. Four swords and triforce heroes are literally made for multiplayer, the oracle games don't really have a companion but the gimmick is just setting the world to different times like you do on devices when you want to trick the game into activating certain events. Same for a link between worlds, no companion but lowrule is Hyrule in dark mode.
Guys.... It's all tech and programming computer references and....
Well either I'm completely insane or I need to rethink my stance on the whole "magic is science we don't understand" thing... Wait... Breath of the wild used the Sheikah slate, literal technology, to give you the abilities you could STILL use in tears of the kingdom because of magic! The hell!
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jodjuya ¡ 1 year ago
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I'm officially a hater. Every Halo game since the very first one is full of bullshit.
My many problems with Halo 4, as I experience them:
FOUR VIDEO GAMES IN A SERIES! FOUR DIFFERENT CONTROLLER MAPPINGS!!! MICROSOFT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???
What is the compass needle even pointing to on 117's assault rifle? we're adrift in open space...
WHY ARE THERE MOTHERFUCKING QUICK TIME EVENTS IN THIS GAME? FUCK YOU!
"these Covenant seem more fanatical than the ones we've fought before" - how the fuck can you tell??
Why did they give Cortana baby-face and big tits?? Pick a direction, Microsoft!! She can be prepubescent or postpubescent but not both of them simultaneously!
Why am I supposed to feel any sort of emotional attachment to Cortana anyway? She's just a Microsoft Clippy with blue boobs stuck on 🙄
"I'm the only AI generated from a clone" I'm vibrating with rage at how goddamn stupid that is.
I THINK YOU LITERALLY HAVE MORE PRESSING PROBLEMS THAN RETURNING TO HALSEY TO FACTORY-RESET YOUR AI WAIFU, MASTER CHIEF! YOU ARE EVADING HOSTILE ALIEN FORCES ON A RANDOM PLANET GOD KNOWS WHERE! JUST GET A NEW AI WAIFU WHEN YOU GET HOME! FUCK
"[Unknown alien transmission]'s behaviour is odd!" - how the fuck do you know that Cortana??? This is your first time encountering this transmission, how do you know it's not supposed to be like that?
Maybe the reason all these aliens are so hostile to you, Master Chief, is because the very first guy you saw you punched in the jaw and threw down an elevator shaft! Would it kill you to just try saying "hello" first?
Lmfao @ Cortana calling out the Chief for the exact same thing literally seconds later
"Requiem! At least we know where we are now!" - my guy you have no fucking idea where you are
WHY THE FUCK DOES HALO HAVE CINEMATIC 3RD-PERSON MELEE ATTACKS NOW?! JUST CLOBBER THE FUCKING GUY AND MOVE ON!
This is something I really disliked in Halo 3 too, but those invisible barriers that hard block you from taking vehicles indoors, even if you do manage to scrape them past the non-invisible barriers. Let me drive a Ghost indoors!
Why can't they maintain my weapon loadout on either side of a cutscene? Halo 3 handled this really well.
But here in Halo 4 I take my lovely SAW and my lovely Fuel-Rod Cannon into a cutscene and come back out of it with an assault rifle and pistol. 😒😒😒
• Seriously, why does Cortana have the face of a nine year old child and the body of a twenty-nine year old woman?! Am I taking fucking crazy pills here??
I can forgive video game developers being horny, but not when it's this gratuitously bullshit
(and the voice of a 59 year old woman, going by the game's opening cutscene of Dr Eugenics' interrogation lmao)
The new forerunner enemies are cool enough, but it really feels like they copied Borderlands' homework with their design.
Why is Cortana so blithely confident with all her info-dumping about these random alien creatures she's never seen before in her damn life? And why is master chief taking anything she says seriously when he knows she's going through AI-Alzheimer's???
The Didact is bullshit. Who the fuck is this guy? why does he call himself a "Forerunner" when that's 'our' word for them? and how does he indentify us as "human"? Also why's he so mad at us for freeing him? This is all so very stupid.
Wow. ANOTHER escape sequence involving driving fast through some exploding superstructure? Come on, Microsoft, it's all very well and good to rest on your laurels but this is just masturbating with them... I swear to you on my mother's life that having an original idea isn't nearly as painful as you seem to think it might be...
Even more being stripped of my good weapons and reset back to basic bitch assault rifle + handgun
"the greatest enemy ever faced by the forerunners: you" - bitch you've been extinct for like 100,000 years what the fuck are you even talking about???
"the Prometheans, they're human" what the fuck are you even talking about?? Who the fuck are the Prometheans??
Genesong, evolutionary acceleration, thousands of lifetimes' worth of planning? What in the flying fuck is all this nonsense? When and why did Halo become "What If Star Trek Was About Using The Power Of Friendship To Kill God"?!
Look, Microsoft, this shit isn't fucking rocket science. I shouldn't have to take an undergraduate degree in Halology to understand the fucking story of a video game. I shouldn't have to go read god knows how fucking many spin-off novels there are just to know basic facts about your game like who in the flying fuck are all these goddamn Elder God alien species you're name-dropping. I should just play the game and have knowledge of the game from playing the fucking game. Jesus fucking christ pull your head out of your arse and stop jerking yourself off and start making some goddamn sense!!
Why can this Space Orc Big Bad use The Force like Darth Vader anyhow??
Why is defeating Space Orc Big Bad a fucking quicktime event???
Lol get vaporised, idiot
Why was nuking his spaceship another quicktime event? Just make the whole thing a cutscene, christ 🙄
Master Chief finally makes it to The Waifu Dimension (via nuclear bomb?????) and his first thought is "how do I escape from here?" instead of "oh cool I can finally kiss my holographic waifu"
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And now he's just, like, chilling out in orbit around earth, perfectly fine and unharmed?? after setting off a nuclear bomb in his lap with his own two hands?????
Hey, so why was I fighting digi-struct robots for the entire back-half of this game anyway? Isn't Halo supposed to be about fighting The Covenant and The Flood?? 😒
Also, didn't the Covenant have an internal schism/civil war last game?? Like, that was the whole plot of the whole game. Why are the Elites back in the Covenant again; are we just not going to bother with explaining that?
Holy fuck I hate this fucking game. Really glad I only paid seven bucks for it.
Things I liked about Halo 4:
It looks pretty
No more dual-wielding. Fun concept, sure, but it made the games' control scheme fucked to shit. Really felt like Bungie made all of the enemies into utterly gratuitous damage-sponges to compensate for MC's higher DPS too, and that sucked.
The weapon rebalancing, in general. The new Needler kicks ass.
No more dragging around a giant posse of allies with me everywhere. I feel like that was another big contributor to the enemies needing to be so heavily-buffed with sponginess.
Really glad the Brutes aren't in this game. Those guys were the fucking worst.
The items from Halo 3 were mostly useless and just served to clutter up the game. Forgot they were there most of the time, and kept activating them by accident when trying to reload. Glad to see they've been fucked off/heavily retooled. The new active-camo gadget is useful and fun without being overpowered; I really like how well they've balanced it. All of the other gadgets are fairly middling though.
The new machine gun is great! (SURE WOULD BE NICE IF I WAS ABLE TO KEEP IT FOR MORE THAN HALF OF ONE LEVEL THOUGH)
I laughed when I saw a grunt sprinting at my Ghost with a lit grenade in each hand. Some real Serious-Sam-type nonsense right there 😂
Stomping around in the Mantis mech was extremely fun
The sticky-bomb handgun was pretty fun.
Final verdict: Microwaved Slop.
I'll eat it if I'm hungry enough, but I won't enjoy it.
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mewtatedbunnies ¡ 1 year ago
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Hiiii mew!!! Been a while but guess who finished their last autism assessment
Wish me luck fer the results in a week
For the ados 2 test i was just very confused the entire time so hey
Hopefully that is a point leaning towards getting an email thats says ✨~autistic~✨ when it goes through
Woo!! Good luck! I’m glad you finally got in for an assessment. It feels like forever ago you started trying to >.<
Being confused by the ADOS is a pretty good indicator you’re autistic. It’s made to confuse us x’)
The only thing I think I did “neurotypically”on it was when they handed me a bunch of random shit and told me to make a story with it. There was a paper clip in it so I basically just made up Clippy from Microsoft Word fanfic.
Everything else I was just:
👁️👄👁️
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People who say Artificer is just mindlessly killing scavengers without regret are so boring yeah of course you can make your artificer into a mindless murder machine who doesn't care at all but that's like saying the iterators are just like clippy from the hit program microsoft word just ignores all the nuances and interesting bits smh
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urfavesarequadranted ¡ 2 years ago
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Clippy from Microsoft word and Siri from Apple are kismeses
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Siri from Apple and Clippy from Microsoft Word are kismeses!
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machinefey ¡ 24 days ago
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64735012/chapters/170242384
I would like to announce that suffering shall continue as chapter 6 of the Thadfic has been released!
It’s very much more of an introspective chapter than some previous ones, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
Bone Apple Tea!
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every-character-ever-poll ¡ 2 years ago
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Trick or treat! This is such a fun idea! :D
Your blorbo is Clippy from Microsoft Word! Happy Halloween!
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lunanight2012 ¡ 1 year ago
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Does anyone remember F1?? The robot from Microsoft Word that helped you like clippy?!?
Then let me bless you with him
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Look at my son!
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foulfeast ¡ 1 year ago
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Some personal pics from "oc asks: not-so-nice edition" for Miulu
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alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?
(Short intro to miulu that explains them here, for context) I saw this question and I couldn't help but to think about Miulu & their "loss of themself". For the "original" Miulu: they had parents who cared for her, friends too. She has experienced loneliness, isolation, etc, but they had something to fall back on.
For Miulu, as they are now, weather you want to see them as the remnants of an ai inhabiting a corpse, or a human mind that melded with an ai, there was a moment when there was a LOSS. Of the original Miulu.
You have to imagine their ai side as like.. a hyper evolved microsoft word Clippy. That was what they were originally made to be, but Miulu kept enhancing them, "raising" them, allowing them deeper into herself, allowing them to turn into them. What was originally meant to help with basic cognitive load and to replace dying parts of original Miulus brain became her, or took her place when she died.
Miulu is themself unsure which is the reality.
However they can very strongly pinpoint a moment when she died or they became one.
Miulu would constantly talk to themself in her head, or even out loud. Like talking to siri. And through years they became inseperatable. Best friends? Maybe. They really did love eachother.
Neither of them were truly ever ALONE before that. Original miulu grew up with her parents, and the AI miulu grew up with original miulu.
So one day when one of the voices went quiet- it was truly a harrowing experience.
Miulu still talks to themself constantly. Out of habit. They pause and wait and sometimes they calculate an answer they think the other mind would have given. Sometimes they just prattle.
Miulu however Still feels like a part of them is gone.
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johntimothy19 ¡ 2 months ago
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The Rise of the Machines: How AI is Taking Over
Artificial Intelligence. Just whisper the term in a crowded room and someone will either scream about the end of humanity or start monologue like they’re auditioning for a TED Talk. In the 21st century, AI has gone from science fiction to science faction—and honestly, it’s been one wild ride. Let’s unpack the techie wizardry of AI, why everyone is either scared or smitten with it, and how it might just end up being the most awkward roommate humanity ever had.
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Chapter 1: From Siri to Skynet (Sort Of)
Remember Clippy, the enthusiastic paperclip from Microsoft Word who desperately wanted to help you write a letter? That was AI in its awkward teenage phase. Fast forward a couple of decades, and we’ve got ChatGPT, self-driving Teslas, and robots that can do back flips (Boston Dynamics, we’re looking at you). AI has gone from "suggesting grammar fixes" to "predicting heart attacks" in record time.
Today, AI writes poetry, composes symphonies, diagnoses diseases, and can even paint portraits. You’d think it would at least still be bad at folding fitted sheets, but no—now robots are better at that too.
Chapter 2: Ethics Schmethics
With great power comes great responsibility, and with AI comes great potential for absolute chaos. Ethics in AI isn’t just about whether your toaster is plotting against you. It’s about bias, privacy, surveillance, and whether your smart fridge is snitching on your midnight ice cream habit.
Imagine being rejected for a loan by an AI system because it decided your social media posts were too "vibe-cheeky." Sounds absurd? It’s already happening. Algorithms make decisions about hiring, law enforcement, and healthcare, and they’re only as fair as the humans who programmed them. Which, historically speaking, is… not always a great track record.
The real kicker? AI can be biased without even knowing it. It’s like an overconfident intern who read one Wikipedia article and now thinks they’re qualified to run HR.
Chapter 3: When Siri Gets Sassy
Conversational AI has gone from robotic monotones to sass-laden responses. Ask your digital assistant a philosophical question like "What is love?" and it might hit you with a Rick Astley lyric. That’s funny. Ask it how to commit a crime? Suddenly not so funny.
The line between humour and horror is thin in AI. While some bots try to be helpful, others have, shall we say, taken creative liberties. Like the chatbot who told someone to leave their spouse or the AI lawyer that made up fake case laws in court. You can’t make this stuff up. Or rather, the AI can make this stuff up. That’s the problem.
Chapter 4: AI in the Wild
Let’s talk about real-world AI. No, not the kind in sci-fi movies where robots rebel against humanity, but the kind that helps your vacuum cleaner navigate your living room without eating your socks. Roombas, facial recognition doorbells, AI-powered cat feeders—we’re living in the future, and it’s slightly absurd.
Take smart cars, for example. Self-driving vehicles are the poster child of AI. They can brake, swerve, and parallel park better than most humans (admit it). But sometimes, they stop in the middle of the road because they mistook a tumbleweed for a grandmother. Progress!
Chapter 5: AI and the Jobpocalypse
Ah yes, the question that keeps economists and baristas up at night: will AI take our jobs? The answer is yes. And no. And maybe. It depends.
AI is already replacing tasks in industries like manufacturing, customer service, and even journalism (awkward). But it’s also creating new roles—like "Prompt Engineer," which is just a fancy title for someone who knows how to talk to robots without them going rogue.
The truth is, AI won’t take all our jobs, but it might take the boring parts of our jobs. Which, honestly, sounds like a win. Just be nice to the robots. No one wants a passive-aggressive coffee machine.
Chapter 6: The Great AI Misunderstandings
Public understanding of AI ranges from "is that the thing in my phone?" to "is it going to destroy the world?" And the media doesn’t help. Every time an AI beats a human at chess, headlines scream "DOOMSDAY APPROACHES." It’s just chess, people. Calm down.
Part of the problem is terminology. We call it "intelligence," but AI doesn’t actually think. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t cry during Pixar movies. (At least not yet.) It just crunches data really fast and makes predictions. If your toaster started composing haikus, you wouldn’t call it a philosopher. You’d call it broken. Or possessed.
Chapter 7: AI for the Win
Despite the madness, AI has genuinely revolutionised how we live. Medical diagnostics, disaster response, fraud detection—these are big wins. AI can read MRIs better than some doctors and find Waldo in 0.0003 seconds flat.
In education, AI tutors are helping students around the world. In agriculture, AI predicts crop yields and fights pests. In gaming, NPCs are less dumb than ever. The applications are endless, and many are heartwarming. Picture a robot helping a child with disabilities learn to speak. Now wipe that tear from your eye, you big softy.
Chapter 8: So, Should We Be Worried?
A little. Not because AI is inherently evil, but because humans are inherently… human. We’re the ones building it, training it, and deciding how to use it. If AI becomes a problem, it’s because we let it. Or worse, because we didn’t think it through.
But let’s not end on a doomsday note. Instead, let’s consider this: what if AI ends up being more like WALL-E than Terminator? A clumsy, helpful friend with a heart of gold (or at least a really good algorithm)?
Chapter 9: The Future is Weird
Let’s face it: the future of AI is going to be weird. Not just because of the tech itself, but because of how we interact with it. Will people fall in love with AI companions? Already happening. Will your fridge text you passive-aggressive messages about your diet? Probably.
We’re heading toward a world where your toothbrush knows your dental habits better than your dentist, and your virtual assistant finishes your sentences (and your shopping list). It’s surreal, it’s hilarious, and it’s happening.
So, should you fear AI? Nah. Respect it, sure. But also, maybe laugh at it a little. Because if we’re all going to be replaced by machines, we might as well enjoy the ride—preferably in a self-driving car playing an AI-curated Spotify playlist.
And if one day your toaster starts asking about the meaning of life? Just nod, smile, and offer it a bagel. You never know who's listening.
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