This is freaking awesome!!!
— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success) January 7, 2025
NVIDIA has announced Project R2X, an RTX-powered digital human interface. Imagine having this AI assistant helping you with tasks while working on your computer.
We’re already living in the future!pic.twitter.com/Y9grWl7q1J
Have you ever explained to your children how life was growing up? In my case, one black and white TV with three channels, one landline telephone and libraries for research. My children told their children that they had pagers, VHS movies from Blockbuster and 286 based computers. I wonder what my future grandchildren will be told in 15-20 years.
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“Professor Albert Einstein was asked by friends at a [--] dinner party what new weapons might be employed in World War III. Appalled at the implications, he shook his head.
After several minutes of meditation, he said. “I don’t know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn’t any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV.”
“And what are those?” a guest asked.
“Stone spears,” said Einstein.
Einstein was right.
With the trajectory of things such as they are now, I’m not confident anyone will be telling anyone else anything in 15-20 years.
Word. If anybody is talking anything to anyone else, the conversation will probably be in Mandarin Chinese. Fortunately, I will no longer be around. .
This is NOT “freaking awesome”. This is enslavement in real time. This is the end of humanity. I do not know why, I saw this very clearly as far back as 1995.
Just my opinion. This will not end well.
About the first 10 years of my life, we didn’t have a tv or telephone. We didn’t have indoor plumbing. We had a hand dug well, with a bucket on a rope you let down about 100 ft. and cranked back up on a log with a crank handle in it. Had a dipper hanging on a nail that everyone drank out of. We heated water in black iron wash pots. Took a bath once a week, on Saturdays, in a #3 wash tub so we were clean for church on Sundays. The bathroom during the night in the winters was called a slop jar that you kept beside the bed. Was no air conditioning and only 2 rooms in the house had heat from a wood burning stove. Each room had one light bulb that hung down frome the center of the ceiling on a long cord.You turned them on and off by pulling on a string tied to a little chain that was attached to the light fixture. We cut trees down all during the summer, sawed them to a length that would fit in the would stove and hauled them to the house with a mule and wagon so we would have heat in the winter. Most of our food came from right there on the farm. We milked cows, canned vegetables, slaughtered hogs and chickens. Had squirrels and rabbits during hunting season. Grew our own wheat for flour to make biscuits and cakes and such. We had to buy sugar from a grocery store and Quick for chocolate milk and tea to make iced tea.
Life was just better when the telephones were tethered to the wall…
I wasn’t alive for it, but it may have been even better still before the telephone existed at all. At that stage, one was closely connected to their community, because it was much more difficult to contact or have knowledge if anything outside of it. Life was simpler, certainly. Telephone, then radio, then television, then internet. Each succession of more advanced communications technology has arguably left us worse off than we were before they existed. Now we are actually (whether slowly or not) killing ourselves with technology, but no one will dare to give it up.
Amen. and probably not slowly…
FWIW, my wife has determined that Western Civilization ought to be divided into Pre-T and Post-T.
The “T” stands for “Tampon.”
I finally found the perfect phone. It’s not a cell phone. Never owned one of those. It’s just a cordless home phone that blocks all callers who you don’t have stored in the directory. I got tired of 30 telemarketers calling me everyday of the week. It is so nice now. It’s an AT&T CL83107 if you’re interested.
I’m old enough to remember segregated water fountains and restrooms, eating at Woolworth’s lunch counter without the “Greensboro four” sitting there, no computers, cell phones, and seeing a Mexican was a novelty.
I don’t like change.
Life was a lot simpler then.
You all have fun in the future. I’ll stay in the past.
They won’t be able to tell much as they will have outsourced most of their brains to AI.
Hmmmmm. How to counter the MegaSuperSentient AI of Skynet?
A brick, for starters.