TURBO AI!!!!!

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I just saw an add for a vending machine - The Genius Vend AI Smart vending machine. Yep, an AI vending machine - is that dumb or what?

Remember "Turbo"? It all started with "Turbo Pascal". It became the go-to product name prefix for software and other tech products. Everything became "Turbo". Turbo-this, Turbo-that. It lives on in TurboTax.

Same with the i prefix - started with iPhone. And "e". There are all sorts of iThnigs and eThings.

"AI" - a step up from "Intelligent", which is a step up from "Smart".

Well, the new Turbo is AI. Everything has to be "AI enabled" - whether it is or not. My guess is that about 90% of "AI" is just plain old software. Not even "smart" or "intelligent".

[Beartracks]

1. AI Lightswitch!

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2. For Sure!!!

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3. Its an Artificial Evolution....

[Arthur_Frain]

4. Those of us in the Deep State

know that it all started (and still resides in) Max Headroom.

All hail Matt Frewer, a truly unsung comedic genius.

[usonian]

5. Announcing the first ENTIRELY A.I. Food Item.

• Ingredients chosen by AI
• Color chosen by AI
• Packaging Chosen by AI
• Flavor chosen by AI

Here is THE ALTMAN JOY CANDY BAR



And here's the magic.
THE INGREDIENTS ARE ENTIRELY A.I.



ARTIFICIAL INGREDIENTS

Designed by supercomputer and created in nuclear fusion labs.

Why? Because if we don't do it, the enemy will beat us to it, and we'll have an AI Food Gap.



Note: Each candy bar takes approximately 1 Terawatt of electrical power to produce.

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7. 🤣 We need a LOL rec

[usonian]

11. Thanks!

Stickers for you.





save or just "copy image url"

Custom orders gladly accepted, but after the damn chores are done here.

[Intractable]

6. There are a few things in life I have loved - and Turbo Pascal was one of them.

Might be 40 years ago, but you never forget your first (programming language, that is).

Actually, it was BASIC, but TP was much better.

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8. It was amazing because....

.... it was a REAL programing language, and it was AFFORDABLE!

I know that there or those who would dis Pascal, but it is actually a pretty decent, modern, theoretically correct programing language, unlike BASIC.

[Intractable]

9. Now, I program almost exclusively in javascript.

But I set up my programs with a procedure style and modularity I learned in Pascal.

[cayugafalls]

13. I wrote my first 21 Blackjack program in Pascal.

Bit mapped cards and all.

It was way overkill for that first programming class and the prof even said so, but I got an A so all good.

[hunter]

12. It runs fine in dosbox...

... and it's pretty easy to convert to freepascal.

Free Pascal is a mature, versatile, open source Pascal compiler. It can target many processor architectures: Intel x86 (16 and 32 bit), AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, SPARC64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS, Motorola 68k, AVR, and the JVM. Supported operating systems include Windows (16/32/64 bit, CE, and native NT), Linux, Mac OS X/iOS/iPhoneSimulator/Darwin, FreeBSD and other BSD flavors, DOS (16 bit, or 32 bit DPMI), OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii, AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and various embedded platforms. Additionally, support for RISC-V (32/64), Xtensa, and Z80 architectures, and for the LLVM compiler infrastructure is available in the development version. Additionally, the Free Pascal team maintains a transpiler for pascal to Javascript called pas2js.

https://www.freepascal.org/

I have all the computers I used regularly, going back to the late 'seventies, emulated on my Linux desktop. Free Pascal covers all of them but the Atari 800 and the homebrew 1802 machines.

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16. Quite a collection!

[Intractable]

19. Thanks for this info. I'll check it out.

My first was an Atari 800.

[Emrys]

10. My first, noname, PC had a Turbo button

IIRC, it made an LED on the front panel light up. That was all it did.

If it had worked as intended, it would have made my PC run at half speed.

[mr715]

14. "Heirloom Intelligence"

Use books.

[jfz9580m]

15. Honestly I'd rather they ride the hype wave

By relabelling ANI AI.
Those Ai “agents” make LLMs look good.
I hate those things.

Ai agent .

Just two hours is all it takes for an Ai agent to reproduce your personality!

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/just-2-hours-is-all-it-takes-for-ai-agents-to-replicate-your-personality-with-85-percent-accuracy

A two-hour conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) model is all it takes to make an accurate replica of someone's personality, researchers have discovered.

In a new study published Nov. 15 to the preprint database arXiv, researchers from Google and Stanford University created "simulation agents" — essentially, AI replicas — of 1,052 individuals based on two-hour interviews with each participant. These interviews were used to train a generative AI model designed to mimic human behavior.

While I do not dispute that two hours is more than enough time to get an accurate replica of the personalities of the mercenaries who work at Google and Stanford (with apologies to Paul Ehrlich, Rodolfo Dirzo and the Woods Institute), it may not work for the normal, complex and nuanced human.

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17. Thanks! Interesting study, and....

.... I learned a new term... ANI.

[jfz9580m]

18. Well I think that's the right term

I am eagerly waiting for this book I just ordered (no I have no tie ins! I post stuff I like so often I sound like an adbot myself ;-/.
I am not an influencer just a hater)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tech-billionaires-adam-becker-1235381649/

Fresh off a Ph.D. in astrophysics, science journalist Adam Becker moved to Silicon Valley with an academic’s acclimation to hearing the word “no.” “In academic science, you need to doubt yourself,” he says. “That’s essential to the process.” So it was strange to find himself suddenly surrounded by a culture that branded itself as data-oriented and scientific but where, he soon came to realize, the ideas were more grounded in science fiction than in actual science and the grip on reality was tenuous at best. “What this sort of crystallized for me,” says Becker, “was that these tech guys — who people think of as knowing a lot about science — actually, don’t really know anything about science at all.”

It’s not that there aren’t a few intelligent scientists at places like Stanford, MIT etc, but at this point I think they have and are letting down the rest of science and scientists, by letting these tech guys and defence contracting get away with ignoring a lot of what were implicit assumptions in the scientific contract with society and there will be no reconciliation with (mediocre and failed) scientists like me they have pissed off.

I myself scoff at conspiratorial trash like “lab leak!”. But not at subservience to those creeps at Google and Palantir. Not the MTG batshit crazy version, but what Becker etc point out.

Real scientists should have checked these self-serving, mercenary morons and they didn’t.

I do not consider them colleagues anymore.

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20. It looks like an interesting read....

..... I'm partial to being skeptical of the tech-bro bumper sticker elevator pitches that seem to have replaced honest inquiry and genuine insight.

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21. For those interested in the book that jfz9580m...

..... highlighted, here is a paywall free review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/books/review/more-everything-forever-adam-becker.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E8.H09N.X3ndyC1jhKkc&smid=url-share

Go to Mars, Never Die and Other Big Tech Pipe Dreams: In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny.