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So much for the temporary delay or ban on AI. Musk named his AI Grok. I'm surprised by the lack of X:es in the name. Perhaps it would have looked odd considering the name of the Musk AI Company is xAI.
Somewhat unclear if the Grok is referring to Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy Grok or to Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land. If you take inspiration from Hitchhikers then it shouldn't be that hard to program. If all else fails, the answer to a query is always 42. So I guess we'll know what it will default to when it starts looping hallucinations.
Also Grok should apparently be really into sarcasm, so that will end well and not lead to any kind of misunderstandings or interpretations. None.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday November 09 2023, @12:34PM (12 children)
is that newer generations barely understand sarcasm and almost never understand irony anymore. Everything is to be understood literally, and whenever possible, with excessive gravitas and drama nowadays.
(Score: 4, Funny) by ledow on Thursday November 09 2023, @12:36PM (3 children)
Yeah, okay boomer, sure.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday November 09 2023, @05:39PM (2 children)
Oh yeah, let's not forget the ultimate answer to stuff young people don't like: Okay Boomer.
Which was offensive for 5 minutes until it became so overused that it started marking those who use it as having no original thoughts of their own instead...
(Score: 3, Touché) by ledow on Friday November 10 2023, @02:00PM (1 child)
For someone who was all about the sarcasm, that one went right over your head.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Saturday November 11 2023, @03:11AM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Samantha Wright on Thursday November 09 2023, @01:45PM (5 children)
I find that when someone says something like this, it usually turns out said someone actually made an incredibly offensive or tasteless joke, and have decided that "[audience] doesn't comprehend humour" is an easier out than accepting the truth that the social norms and values of yesterday are no longer acceptable.
It certainly can't be sincerely asserted that young people no longer embrace or understand sarcasm. They invented Birds Aren't Real [wikipedia.org], which is universally regarded as an excellent example of committing to an ironic bit. And there's no lack of continuity, either; the entirety of meme culture is rich in sarcastic language but is driven almost entirely by Millennials and Gen Z.
So. Maybe you should just tell us what incredibly tasteless thing you said that made you go all sour grapes, hmm?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2023, @03:31PM (1 child)
Good and funny post, but my Rx for people of Earth: lighten up. Y'all are literally creating 98% of society's problems, up to and including death, destruction, and wars. Chill out, find some constructive hobbies, take things with a huge grain of salt, be that better person you so long for in the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2023, @03:27PM
You first.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday November 09 2023, @05:34PM (1 child)
You just demonstrated that you don't know what irony is. Who said anything about jokes?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Samantha Wright on Thursday November 09 2023, @10:58PM
That is not a denial.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2023, @07:42PM
You're not saying anything new. The problem is: revisionism. You and others are trying to change what was accepted societal norms. Those changes may be good and maybe even necessary for a better society. But you're not doing a good job of teaching. You should learn a bit of psychology. Scolding, shaming, denigrating, sometimes physically attacking people is not the way to get your opinion accepted and societal change. And, you're making yourselves look very stupid by not showing acceptance for others' points of view, and for not showing that you should know that others might not be educated on your better ways. In other words, your severe repugnant indignation toward simple ignorance is in and of itself hurting your own cause.
In case you never learned, it is 100% animal instinct, including humans, to resist an attack. Cops need to learn this too, but they don't care because guns and "qualified immunity", which needs to be abolished.
Point is, it's just making society worse by being so triggered and reacting so harshly. Show the kindness and patience you supposedly espouse (but don't seem to exemplify).
As I said above, lighten up.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Thursday November 09 2023, @08:08PM
I think that is true of the millennials but gen-z just seems tired of irony and sarcasm. probably because they associate it with old people and think of it as old people humor. also they were born into and are growing up in an age of continuous decline so they tend to absurdist humor.
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday November 10 2023, @05:39AM
I've seen widespread failures to grasp sarcasm from long before the current generation.