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"I look forward to hooking all my at-home cameras up to a voice recognition, image recognition, and LLM detection suite and just speak aloud and have the AI-sui

"I look forward to hooking all my at-home cameras up to a voice recognition, image recognition, and LLM detection suite and just speak aloud and have the AI-suite "do stuff". It sounds really, really fun to me." Alternatively, this sounds like the starting plot to a crossover sci-fi/horror movie...

renewiltord 3y ago
Of course it does. That's the structure of all sci-fi horror https://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ https://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
jstarfish 3y ago
They never read Demon Seed.
dandellion 3y ago
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it. -- Philip K. Dick, Ubik
- mensetmanusman 3y ago
  The 5 cent reference has a history in Boston, it’s why the mbta card is called the Charlie card: https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=IQZrPJhDWhNVyhx_ https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=IQZrPJhDWhNVyhx_
- Gigachad 3y ago
  More like "the door misunderstood and thought you said something racist, your account has now been terminated and doors disabled"
chc 3y ago
Literally any new technology could be the plot to a sci-fi horror movie. The entire concept of the genre is to show how progress could go awry.

renewiltord 3y ago

Of course it does. That's the structure of all sci-fi horror https://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ https://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/

jstarfish 3y ago

They never read Demon Seed.

dandellion 3y ago

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it. -- Philip K. Dick, Ubik

mensetmanusman 3y ago
The 5 cent reference has a history in Boston, it’s why the mbta card is called the Charlie card: https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=IQZrPJhDWhNVyhx_ https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=IQZrPJhDWhNVyhx_
Gigachad 3y ago
More like "the door misunderstood and thought you said something racist, your account has now been terminated and doors disabled"

chc 3y ago

Literally any new technology could be the plot to a sci-fi horror movie. The entire concept of the genre is to show how progress could go awry.