>humanoid robot

They're called "clankers"

You're dead right on that.

On a wider front, I expect the bubble's burst will deal some long-lasting damage to the tech industry, on two major fronts:

1. Evaluations/stock prices will go through the floor, as investor assumptions of Endless Growth^tm^ are shattered, and the tech industry comes to be seen as "a stable, mature industry whose days of endless growth are behind it" (quoting Baldur Bjarnason), at best and deep in the throes of a serious malaise era at worst. One outcome is obviously better than the other, but both will lead to a lotta pain.

2. The tech industry's public image, already in the shitter for a litany of reasons, will likely take another significant blow as the industry's ability to generate hype for AI and/or counteract the boiling resentment towards it completely falls apart.

Ed Zitron breaking out the anime references for April Fool's:

Yud was right - we should bomb the shit out of AI servers!

Not to prevent a superintelligent AI from becoming sentient and killing us all, but because this shit should not be allowed to fucking exist

EDIT: For context, this was reacting to Erikson showing me AI-generated Ghibli memes.

He's an AI bro, having even a basic understanding of art is beyond him

Monday here, Appreciate the shout out.

I definitely can see the election bringing some nuclear backlash against tech, and probably some harsh regulation against AI as well - we've already had Trump using AI to lie about Swift supporting him and deny Harris's public support at a rally, so the Dems already have plenty of material to use against the industry if they win.

Going by the Atlantic, there's opposition to AI from both the Dems and the Reps, so whoever wins in November, the industry's gonna find little support from the White House.

Brian Merchant put out a "complete guide to luddite horror films", which focuses on horror films which directly critique tech in one way or another.

On a personal note, I suspect "luddite horror" (alternatively called "techno-horror") is probably gonna blow up in popularity pretty soon - between boiling resentment against tech in general, and the impending burst of the AI bubble, I suspect audiences are gonna be hungry as hell for that kinda stuff.

Additionally, I suspect AI as a whole (and likely its supporters) will find itself becoming a pop-culture punchline much the same way NFTs/crypto did. Beyond getting pushed into everyone's faces whether they liked it or not, public embarrassments like Google's glue pizza debacle and ChatGPT's fake cases have already given comedians plenty of material to use, whilst the ongoing slop-nami turned "AI" as a term into a pretty scathing pejorative within the context of creative arts.

Update: As a matter of fact, I did. Here's some Python code to prove it:

# Counts how many times a particular letter appears in a string.
# Very basic code, made it just to clown on the AI bubble.

appearances = int(0) # Counts how many times the selected char appears.
sentence = input("Write some shit: ")
sentence_length = len(sentence) # We need to know how long the sentence is for later
character_select = input("Select a character: ") # Your input can be as long as you wish, but only the first char will be taken

chosen_char = chr(ord(character_select[0]))

# Three-line version
for i in range (0, sentence_length):
    if chosen_char in sentence[i]:
        appearances = appearances + 1

# Two-line version (doesn't work - not sure why)
# for chosen_char in sentence:
#     appearances = appearances + 1
# (Tested using "strawberry" as sentence and "r" as character_select. Ended up getting a result of 10 ("strawberry" is 10 chars long BTW))
    
# Finally, print the fucking result
print("Your input contains "+str(appearances)+" appearances of the character ("+character_select+").")

There's probably a bug or two in this I missed, but hey, it still proves I'm more of a programmer than Sam Altman ever will be.

Holy shit he's doubling down

babe wake up Gamers Nexus is absolutely cooking Intel rn

Behold

Motion capture, but worse - brought to you by AI

(seriously, I saw random Youtubers do better shit than this eight years ago and that is not hyperbole)

This is just the Glucoboy but worse