• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I swear I remember hearing about a science fiction story where the “self-driving” cars actually just had people hidden in them.

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      8 months ago

      scifi dystopia future where a race of gnomes are created to sit inside things and play mechanical turk

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        8 months ago

        I watched this sketch comedy show in Iceland as a kid, where every week they had a section called “the men behind the curtains”. It was just people hidden away inside ATMs, vending machines etc. pretending it was a machine doing the work.

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      8 months ago

      Slow march to 40k servitors not looking far fetched. Why develop an AI/algorithm when you have no moral conscience and can just make a human do it.