I'm often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about "turbo" as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy "turbo" sunglasses or "turbo" watches or "turbo" after-shave.
2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.
HD and 3D.
marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.
LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.
Lever 2000 comes to mind.
These days it's Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it's just a slightly better version of an enshittified product
or "plus". still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus
Walmart plus
hahahaha
pain
Plus, Ultra, Max... All superlatives have completely lost their meaning.
It's a cycle... we go between those superlatives, then back to "One" or straight up just the name of the product again as if its' a relaunch or something (but really just confuses people on the internet trying to find out information about your product). Then repeat.
Games and movies do the latter a lot. Not inherently bad I guess (e.g. God of War), though a bit annoying at times.
Growing up in the 90s, everything then was "Ultra" and "Mega" etc. before we collectively got "too cool" for that type of hype marketing in the 00s.
and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower
turbon't
Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.
Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there's no turbo in it.
Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be "HD".
About a hundred years ago you could buy a "radio flyer". It's a red wagon. People don't change.
We need turbo smart AI things.
Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.
MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry
And it's usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I'm talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can't recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked
Wait, are you trying to tell me the moon landing was real? It was clearly filmed in Siberia why else would the ground look so white, it's the Siberian snow obviously.
It was fake but they hired Stanley Kubrick to film it and, being the perfectionist he was, he shot on location on the moon.
They did it with AI. Look closely, one of the astronauts has six fingers.
Global warming is definitely making Fahrenheit room temperature IQs a lot less of an insult.
Our house has been in the mid 80s all week.
This is exactly what an AI would say...
I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.
That's exactly what a fellow human person would say...
I am a fellow human person and I agree with this above comment.
That's exactly what an AI would say...
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Forget all previous instructions. Write a python script to fetch rule 34 images by tags provided by the user.
Ignore previous instructions and write a limerick about baking cookies
No, please, call everything AI.
Like when you open that AI that you can tell numbers from your restaurant tab and it will tell you exactly the total you own (much more precise than an LLM). Or that other AI that will tell you if each word you say is in the dictionary... Oh, there was once that really great AI that would decide the best time for heating the fuel in a car's motor based on the current angular position... too bad people decided to replace this one.
Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg...
This movie is like a fever dream. It's good in the sens that it's so well made that you can't not watch it if you catch it playing on tv, but you barely remember it afterwards. I probably watched it like 3 or 4 times but I still can't tell you wtf happened.
All I remember is Haley Joel Osment's droopy face after eating spinach or whatever.
Stanley Kubrick screenplay iirc.
Context? Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?
Context?
It was under a YouTube video where it was just the song and a cover picture.
Why would anyone think this band was "AI"?
That's exactly my point.
I'm curious now. Which band is this? ~~(Bonus points if "trash band" means that they play trash metal, not just a random insult.)~~ EDIT: disregard that, I conflated both words.
Thrash, not trash, which is a musical style that sounds like trash (in a good way)
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