Ask Howard • 05-19-23
The pitfalls of modern dating Let’s see now, folks, what’s been happening since last we met up here? Oh, that’s right, ChatGPT — which seems to have materialized overnight out of sheer nothingness — is, we’re suddenly forewarned, poised to take over the entire world, and the fears are both simultaneously justified yet farcically jaundiced.
After all, unlike with flesh-and-blood humans, should one care to stop Artificial Intelligence from potentially going nuclear-rogue and obliterating all humanity in some wily doomsday scenario, all any idiot need do is yank its damned power cord from the wall.
Like, duh? I mean, considering A.I.’s sustenance requirement — even if it can learn to think all on its own, and conclude our world would be a much better place without us — how is it possibly going to retaliate, minus being plugged into an electrical socket?
Is it going to learn how to hunt down a human, cook it, then eat it whilst guzzling moonshine and defecating on dead Master’s porch, all the while crooning, “Bye, bye, Miss American Pie?” Ha!
