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Future dystopia: Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s u
by sshine 2y ago
Future dystopia:
Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.
- amelius 2y agoSolution: drink coffee
- Munksgaard 2y agoYour coffee machine uses AI to continually enhance your coffee experience based on the mineral contents of the water, the specific beans being used, your personal tastes and various other dynamic factors.
- ted_bunny 2y agoIt also doesn't work if you're offline.
- nicce 2y agoWorks every time! Edit: apparently not based on the sibling comment.
- aurareturn 2y agoHopefully we'll have more than one company who can supply us with AGI. We can just ask another AGI to fix the downed AGI.
- fmbb 2y agoThat’s one way to define hope.
- sshine 2y agoOr we could trust that the AGI intended for the system to be down. And now, on to heating our dinner with friction.
- amelius 2y agoIt's a winner-takes-all market. The winner gets all the computational resources, gets more money, and repeat.
- aurareturn 2y agoI assume if one company is close, there are many who will also be close to AGI. Computers move fast but humans controlling are slow.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoWhich is why AGI will likely be the end of us.
- koliber 2y agoIt kind of already happens to devs when Jira or GitHub goes down. These tools are part of the core process of software delivery for many dev teams. When the forklift breaks, you can't load the truck.
- koolba 2y agoThe JIRA example is a funny one. It’s like a workshop with a broken clipboard. Imagine not ordering a replacement one because there’s no task (written on said clipboard) to order a replacement.
- sshine 2y agoI can easily imagine this. I have to have a piece of paper on my desk in front of my computer. I write my priorities there. If I don't, I find it extremely hard to concentrate on or prioritise anything. What's problematic about depending on Jira this way is: When Jira is down, you can't go to your supplies stash and get another Jira. Programmers can work when the office Internet or GitHub is down, because git is decentralised. Managers don't seem to factor in that kind of risk when they subscribe to a critical tool into the cloud.
- aaomidi 2y agoBecause how often is the internet down? If you’re in an office you’re absolutely supposed to be getting multiple upstream connections.
- baobun 2y agoA variation of this is exposed brilliantly in the South Park episode "You call the handyman". Gave me some solace.
- jstummbillig 2y agoI mean, that's akin to proposing a situation where a power plant is it's own backup power plant. I or any human can't personally generate electricity when the system fails, but if I fail to design the system in such a way that something else will be capable of handling the failure with reasonably high reliability, I probably should not be designing systems.
- jalapenos 2y agoIn the future we'll all just be unreliable sparse caches of the AIs