brbposting@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 months agoPerformance Imprulevement Plansh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1870arrow-down10
arrow-up1870arrow-down1imagePerformance Imprulevement Plansh.itjust.worksbrbposting@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareusualsuspect191@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up26·9 months agoI swear I remember hearing about a science fiction story where the “self-driving” cars actually just had people hidden in them.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoscifi dystopia future where a race of gnomes are created to sit inside things and play mechanical turk
minus-squareHolyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 months agoI 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.
minus-squareRevonult@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoSlow 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.
minus-squareusualsuspect191@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoNo, there are no cars in that, although I get the connection. This was a short story or novel I think, but I haven’t read it just heard about it.
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoWrong Way by Joanne McNeil
I swear I remember hearing about a science fiction story where the “self-driving” cars actually just had people hidden in them.
scifi dystopia future where a race of gnomes are created to sit inside things and play mechanical turk
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.
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.
Spoiler
Snowpiercer?
No, there are no cars in that, although I get the connection.
This was a short story or novel I think, but I haven’t read it just heard about it.
Makes sense, I was just joking :)
Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil