Category: quotes

In the city of Xichang, located in the southwestern Sichuan province, there is a massive, artificial intelligence-powered roach breeding farm that is producing more than six billion cockroaches per year.

AJ Dellinger, in This AI-Controlled Roach Breeding Site Is a Nightmare Factory [gizmodo.com].

Read the article. Really, read it. This is the setup for a horror or armageddon movie plot. Six billion AI raised cockroaches escape and take over Southern China… Armageddon. Or Horror. Actually, horror-armageddon.

In the mid-`90s, public use of the internet boomed, and it’s been downhill ever since.

Sam Rutherford, in “Samsung’s Smartphone That Can’t Connect to the Internet Is Actually a Great Idea” on Gizmodo.

That computes. I once saw a post on the internet that summed it up nicely, can’t find it but more or less it said:

Remember before the internet, when we thought that lack of access to knowledge was the problem

Someone smart on the internet…

President’s Xi Jinping’s plan to construct a social credit system based on the principle of “once untrustworthy, always restricted”

Reuters, from China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from planes, trains [reuters.com].

This is worse than the The Internet Never Forgets [confusion.cc].

“Whenever Trump wanted, he would command “Beef and a chief!” in his bathrobe, and his staff would have to get him a little bit of meat.”

Botnik AI rewrite of Fire and Fury [botnik.org]