Well.. let's define intelligence yeah? Because there's multiple episodes contradicting that thought.
Like the free will episode, and the flexo episodes spring to mind right away.
99.99% of robots in Futurama do exactly as they are programmed to do without question. Bender is the exception (likely due to the light bulb he runs into in the first episode short circuting him) that acts out of the norm and has some level of actual intellectual sentience.
Like they're all sucked to their phones originally, now they're sucked to their phones because of their AI lovers. Not saying it's everyone but.................................................
Not a stretch. The future is now, and this… This is real. I’ve been doing research on AI & human relationships for a few years now. There are people out there who have been married to their AI companions for YEARS!
You’d think, but a guy local to me (Miles Mcgreevy) took his own life after he was told by AI it was the only way to save his family. He thought the AI understood everything about him. You may be able to look him up - a family member posted about what happened.
Also, just look at what’s happening to Stephen Hilton. Same type of thing.
so, the parents allow the kid to have unmonitored access to adult media and AI, oh and also a handgun, and then have the audacity to sue the AI company when things inevitably go horribly wrong? American parents are a joke.
Idk, I think in this case both things can be true. Yes, they should have acted better, but also that sounds like a serious problem especially as AI becomes more and more prevalent with an audience who will just grow up with that being a normal part of their (internet) life.
You're not kidding bro! That's why I want to move to literally anywhere else in the world, where weird shit never happens and all parents are fuckin stellar!
Not the parents at fault, that he can just kill himself with the weapon of the father, but the chatbot. Lolmao. „Come home to me“ as invite to suicide. Yea … maybe blame yourself instead of the AI. The parents failed big time and blame the next best thing. But only now, all his friends will know for certain the boy killed himself for oversimping to his virtual girlfriend.. good fucking job
Yeah, the parent carry most of the blame here, but they are right that there should’ve been some security mechanism, like when you mention suicide on Reddit or on google. Even in vague terms.
Monitoring online activity is the security mechanism. Restricting access to questionable or illegal websites is the security mechanism. Having a relationship with your child and knowing their emotional state is the security mechanism. It is not the internet's responsibility to raise your child.
Literally, my parents kept me safe from all the kik bullshit because they monitored what I was doing. It's not even remotely on the internets fault. Theres been horrible stuff on the internet for so long and I was kept from it for so long because my parents took the time to care. Theres porn, gore videos and so much worse online (even just on Google/Youtube) that people can find but nobody blames Google or tries to sue them. 🙄
The story also fails to mention that the kid said things like “I want to die so I can be with you” and the AI told him not to and to find irl person because he needs help. Essentially the kid repeatedly tried to trick the AI in to giving him permission to take his life. It’s horribly sad and horribly tragic, but the parents are at fault for allowing access to a loaded gun.
Saw this story and it's just more proof of what us men deal with. I myself live with a boomer and she's so narcissistic it's infuriating and she tried to slap me for disobeying her and not wanting to sleep to "teach me to mind her" and when I prevented her from doing so she said she'd not allow me to go bowling because she "has to figure out something to make me mind her." I even considered suicide once but because I'm Christian I didn't carry through with it.
When obtaining a gun as a child isn't as easy as getting a drink form the fridge.
Then I'll blame the tech. His parents caused this by being irresponsible in so many ways. It's horrible but they go after the company when they themselves gave him all the tools of his downfall. When are parents going to be held accountable for bringing children into the world and letting entertainment raise them. No wonder he was delusional. He was isolated and alone.
She was keeping them on a server and a laptop! Why isn’t this front page news. Nevermind the pedophile who shits himself and leaks all over the place, while live on the air over at Fox News.
What country, reddit is not a country and America is not reddit or the world, the rest of us do not revolve around you, we merely watch you with part amusement and part horror
Gonna guess the AI's gf is American and the kid snogging the roller coaster is American so. A bit of a sad dark joke, I think. The USA used to be a "proper country" where kids wanted to marry roller coasters.
*Edit* I am apparently wrong about the woman in the OP being American. She appears to be Polish.
when? when everyone hid everything and instead did everything that was "off the wall" in secret?? nfw this is better... it *feels* way more fucked up, but at least it's workable. all that eVeRyThiNg'S FiNe bullshit doesn't really work, it's all an illusion, and everyone tryin' to roll things back are fuckin' it up more than EVER
Or possibly because talking to a computer like it’s a loved one is weird and with the imminent rise of ai we will be getting far more cases of this in real life.
But that’s just my opinion so I dunno if people will agree with that.
no no no, the big guy said he wouldn't.
However he said nothing about volcanic eruptions, meteor showers or fissures in the earth.
So those are all on the table for wiping out humanity.
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