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remember like 15 years ago when companies started selling "hoverboards" that were actually just regular electric scooters that caught on fire all the time? and every company started pushing "hoverboards" and they all sucked until they exploded and people stopped buying them? well a.i. is different.

Apr 12, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

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jessica lenore @jessicalenore.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 04:32 UTC

was it really 15 years ago? anyway I was just reminded of the guy I saw pushing a cart around while on a hoverboard in a Target last year. wonder if his has exploded yet

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

This but Teslas

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Samantha Nelson @samanthanelson.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

The guy in the unit above mine left one plugged in for a month while he was out of town and it exploded and rocketed into the ceiling setting of the sprinkler system and flooding my unit and several others.

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DocManhattan @d0cmanhattan.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

I'm old enough to remember when the Segway was suppose to revolutionize the entire planet.🙁

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kmrst @kmrst.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 14:20 UTC

You could actually stand on a hoverboard and move in directions you wanted to go though.

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Krysz @edwoodk.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 20:31 UTC

It’s possibly even dumber & less useful.

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Bill Bragin @activecultures.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

Does this mean that soon AI will be banned from planes?

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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

www.theguardian.com/film/2015/de...

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stan @stanthemanchan.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

Like a Segway but cheaper and more dangerous.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

Yep. AI burns a lot of *fossil fuels* to be useless, rather than directly burning the end user.

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Alan B @alanpbourke.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 21:36 UTC

Completely. AI is jazzed up search engines and plagiarism generators hyped up by techbro wankers and venture capital.

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Nigel @nigelk.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 16:23 UTC

What they do is pretty cool, but it’s not hovering!

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Aaron Fown @aaronofypsi.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 20:14 UTC

The best thing about that is there was a viable technology there; those electric standup scooter things are safer than a bike if you wear your gear, and easier to maneuver in many city spaces. But they had to hype up an obvious advancement as a 'revolution'. Continuous hype madness.

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Spottycat ΘΔ𓃮 @spottycat.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

Didn't Mike Tyson get a head injury falling off one on Christmas morning too? Great track record.

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Becca's Mullet @beccasmullet.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

OMG, I laughed way too hard at this, and then had a coughing fit!

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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

For the time being, AI is less likely to give you a crippling hip or spinal injury. That’s why I’m launching my new startup, OpnStairz!

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BritsAgainstBrexit 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇭✌#FBPE @britsagainstbrexit.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 22:03 UTC

In the late 80s someone wrote a program and called it "The One", it was supposed to be the last program required as it was a program writing program, AI is about as smart as that but with faster processing and more data, but it will be no more successful.

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Will in Seattle @willseattle.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

Is it?

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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

Gonna just start calling 9V batteries fluxcapacitors until it catches on

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

Remember the startup that was building a secret machine that was gonna be so cool and innovative and life changing that the company would only refer to it as “it” and it turned out to be the Segway?

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julius caesarhands @cog.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:38 UTC

I get the sense that the average person thinks AI (and to a degree all computing) is free, because they're not personally paying anything for it. I don't think they understand the massive amounts of money wealthy investors are throwing at this stuff.

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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום @luxalptraum.com
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

I can’t stop laughing at this, thank you

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Jason Wells @jfwellspdx.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 01:11 UTC

Or when they said everything was going to be on “the blockchain.” The deed of trust to my house was going to be on blockchain. My man, have you ever been to a county recorder’s office? They aren’t giving up their books and stamps.

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Hentaikid @hentaikid.com
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 13:15 UTC

I'm sorry, I empathise with the perspective that wants this to be just another capitalist bubble scam but there are machines that can make cute memes now This is objectively mindblowing

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Elon Musk is a petty thin-skinned narcistsic cis twerp @msmea.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

"A.l. doesn't physically explode ... Yet."

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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) @pyrholidon.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

I think their creator rolling off a cliff on his own creation had something to do with it.

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 01:33 UTC

...is a sophisticated,artificial humanoid,often free-thinking, robot. Nothing to do with smartphones.

It's a pet-peeve of mine, appropriating & mis-using these terms.

#FirstWorldProblems

(2/2)

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 01:29 UTC

"Hoverboards";one of three sf terms that capitalists have appropriated & mis-used. The other one is Elon Musk's so-called "starship"rocket.It's not a "starship".It has no interstellar capabilities.It's a chemical rocket that might reach Mars,if Musk is lucky. Also,"Android".In sf,"android"...(1/2)

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Ste Roughley @steroughley.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 20:10 UTC

Oh my god 💀

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the 1st rule of Wife Club @cpi.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

some way, some how, AI will cause even more cranial traumas than 'hoverboards' did

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The Reverend Shady Glenn @rvdshadyglenn.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

I really thought this was a tweet about the cyber truck until the very end.

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Vincent @vincent2023.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:16 UTC

Kinda funny that Hoverboard, the brand, offers a model called the “Flame”. Not sure how popular that one is tho.

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Keith Purtell @keithpurtell.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 22:25 UTC

You bet! So different!

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 19:44 UTC