„Just a mile or so beneath the surface, near the south pole of Mars, there is a reservoir of briny water sloshing and churning below layers of ice and rock.“
…oder das mysteriöse rote Wasser aus dem verfluchten Sarkophag?
„What was revealed was not buried treasure or some massive curse (yet) but three average skeletons, possibly soldiers, baking in a lot of red liquid.“
„People knew that intelligent assistants are imperfect. So, even when the assistant provided an answer, they sometimes doubted that the answer is right – not knowing if the query was correctly understood in its entirety, or the assistant only matched part of it.“
Als Sprachassistentverweigerer würde mich sehr interessieren inwiefern Erwartungen an Sprachinterfaces durch SciFi geprägt sind, wie groß die Enttäuschung ist und ob und wie sich Menschen an die Eigenheiten eines Systems anpassen – so wie ich mir für Google über die Jahre eine alternative (anders gewichtete, stopword-lose) Syntax angewöhnt habe, die heute vielleicht überflüssig ist, aber sich einfach besser anfühlt.
Tales from the Loop: 8 Folgen basierend auf Kunst von Simon Stålenhag (Maschinen in Landschaften) (via Nerdcore)
Project Blue Book: basierend auf UFO-Sichtungs-X-Akten der 50er und 60er Jahre (via PewPewPew)
Ich musste es dreivier mal lesen und es klingt immer noch extrem dystopisch sciencefictionig. Hut ab auch für das perfekte Beitragsbild.
„sample company: Zhuaqianmao, which translates as „money grab cat“ (seriously)“
„borrowers, who were increasingly defaulting (and, sometimes, vanishing)“
„The government’s response has been to convert sports stadiums to processing centers for investor claims“
„Because Spot Mini is just under three feet tall, it’s objectively less-scary and might even appear cute if it were to take care of your aging grandmother — fetching drinks and medicine and opening doors for her.
[…]
all kinds of functionalities like opening doors for other robots“
ISS + Kraftwerk + Captain Future + Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art = maximal Sci-Fi
„[C]ompanies fake it until they make it, telling investors and users they have developed a scalable AI technology while secretly relying on human intelligence.“
„[I]n a bizarre video, which appeared recently, the director seems to provide a very simple and clear explanation of the „2001: A Space Odyssey“ ending. […] It comes from a Japanese paranormal documentary“
Space Travellers / Jack Teagle, „D’ici, on verra bien la fin du monde.“ / Joseph Callioni, „My God, It’s Full of Stars“ / Massik (Deeplink an Tumblrs DSGVO-Checkboxorgie vorbei, Sorry)
„Brian May, the lead guitarist from the British rock band Queen, has created a stereoscopic image of Ryugu“
(Danke, Kathrin!)
Gattaca meets Double Rainbow Guy meets Bob Ross meets Florida Man
