Have you seen the Meta and Ask Google commercials trying to sell the “convenience” of AI?
In one commercial, a guy asks his AI bot, “How do I get my two year-old to eat his breakfast?”
The bot replies, “He likes it when you make funny faces.”
Then, we see a plate of pancakes and fruit arranged in the shape of an animal smiley face.
Now what would this father have done without his AI bot, we are left to wonder?
Of course, the appropriate response to the bot should be, “Meta, how the f# do you know that?” (And why couldn’t dad figure out a fun way to interact with his son on his own? I’m sure he could have, if he just thought for a moment.)
It’s almost as if we are expected to outsource all our problem-solving to an algorithmic third party, no matter how small or intimate the matter. These companies also presuppose we’re all idiots who need AI guidance to navigate breakfast.
Having heard the Tech Bros Theil and Karp go on about the anti-Christ, trans-humanism, and “kill chains,” (not to mention the Big Brother surveillance and censorship that AI facilitates) I think it’s safe to say that we are dealing with what C. S. Lewis calls “the conditioners” in the Abolition of Man. Theil, Karp, Musk, et al. are the new conditioners in cahoots with the totalitarian state that is being constructed, like the Tower of Babel, all around us and even reaching inside our bodies via experimental biotechnology (e.g., mRNA shots).
The idiotic AI commercials are asking us, in the name of convenience, to invite the vampire into our house.
Like the Clapper that turns on the lights at the clap of one’s hands, the carrots we’re being offered with regard to AI are pretty lame and unconvincing. Knowing the cost at which we accept the AI vampire into our homes and everyday lives, I think it’s imperative we reject this technology. We should fight it tooth and nail in the name of all that is holy, good, and human.
Do you know anyone who has forgone the convenience of the Clapper? How are they possibly getting by?