Post by @Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org

@Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org

2026-09-09 20:09 UTC

@Huntn00@mastodon.world The things AI is actually good at is translation and transcription. And you're not going to end the world with a mad translation engine. Machine learning is a misnomer. It's not learning. It's parsing datasets under a specific set of instructions. Again, zero actual agency. @SteveThompson@mastodon.social

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@Huntn00@mastodon.world 2026-09-10 00:26

@Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org @SteveThompson@mastodon.social I’m not against AI as tech. It has a place. It does do some things well. It’s the humans that are the problem, overuse of natural resources so Corpo A and $$$ beat Corpo B instead of sharing data. But that’s not the game is it? 1:2

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@Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-09-09 22:10

@Huntn00@mastodon.world @SteveThompson@mastodon.social Also, in the very fictional Terminator series, the initial assertion is not only that Skynet gets hooked up to a lot of systems that we currently don't even let a single human control alone, but that "Skynet becomes self-aware." None of these AI systems, NONE of them, have the functionality to become self-aware. Frankly, most *people* are barely self-aware, and no one understands how *we* do it. Read this: https://ko-fi.com/post/Crechebot-Awakes-X8X0I2RD0 then come back and talk to me about AI

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