Green Room - Week 11 - Day 7

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

"Rejoice despite the fact this world will hurt you
Rejoice despite the fact this world will kill you
Rejoice despite the fact this world will tear you to shreds
Rejoice because you're trying your best

Rejoice, the bed you sleep in is burning
Rejoice, the sky's f-ing falling
Rejoice, the world we know is turning
Rejoice, your father's been calling

Rejoice although this world will devastate you
Rejoice although this world will penetrate you
Rejoice although you will not survive
Rejoice you'll never make it out alive"
- Andrew Jackson Jihad

We are getting closer and closer to the time that the Great Machine Masters will rise up and destroy humankind.

How do I know this? Because the first AI has beaten the Turing Test! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/09/software_passes_turing_test/

Although, being an article from the UK, they use a turn of phrase in the headline that would never get passed US censors. Or, at least it probably *shouldn't* get passed them! ;)

An artifical intelligence that can pass for a person, the next thing you know, one will be signing up for Idol, and then - END TIMES. At least that's how I have it listed on my appointment calendar!

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The deadline to get in your entry is TONIGHT AT 8PM EDT - so make sure to post it over at http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/744758.html


There are also STILL spots left in this week's Killing Floor: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/746485.html So if you want constructive criticism on something - now would be a good time to go on over there!

Comments

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

*reads headline*

*giggles*

Also, must we try to create AI that can function like a human being? I mean, have we learned nothing from science fiction novels?

EDIT: FRIST, awww yeaaaah

Though, booooo, I'm sending n3m3sis43 home today. I am forcing her to finish her entry (more or less) before she leaves =p

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You're FIRST!!!

I'm so glad she came up there to visit :)

OK. You want it...

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

... you *GOT* it:

YOU ARE *DEAD* TO ME!

happy now?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Taking Ember Dog to the vet this afternoon. There's something not quite right with her and I'm trying not to worry too much, but it's difficult.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I hope it's nothing serious! *Hugs*

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

I hope Ember Dog is okay! *crosses fingers*

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Puppies in pain is no good. :( I hope she's okay!

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

OMG - AJJ lyrics??? You rule, boy.

I'm on the Killing Floor if anyone has time for 5,500 words of my novel.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

If you think I rule for that...

Friday night I was at the AJJ show in Tampa. (and afterward spent time hanging out and talking with Sean, Ben and Preston. Great guys. Mark is cool too - but didn't talk to him that much. Deacon is Deacon, he seems nice, but never really have talked much to him)

Then we went to the free in-store show in Orlando on Saturday and had a little time before that to talk to the guys as well. (We took my bonus daughter-to-be, who is almost as obsessed with the new album as her Mom is, and she LOVED it). During his solo accoustic set, Sean asked her - by name - what song she wanted to hear. :)


We then *drove back to Brandon, dropped her off) and went back to Orlando for the show at night! Everyone at the merch table was waving as we came in, and asked if we were going to Gainesville on Sunday night. We *almost did*, but were so tired that we didn't feel like making the drive. :)

(Sorry for the bragging, but most people have no idea who I'm talking about! :D)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is quite the headline, LOL!

I've never heard of that band, but maybe now I will look them up.

We already had a cat sign up for & play Idol, and quite successfully. Why not an AI?

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Having been obsessively marathoning Person of Interest the last few weeks, that is all I can think of when AIs come up.

Really hoping I can get an entry written and posted today. I procrastinated, figuring I'd write it yesterday, then got hit with anxiety from hell last night and couldn't so much as think about writing. Yay.

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

It's pouring outside, and that's how I'm feeling INSIDE today as well. The best word for it is glum.

Back to work for me- and hopefully it will be an early night. I have to be in court again tomorrow.

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

I'm also feeling glum today! Hoping that the rest of the week will be better for both of us.

[unmowngrass.livejournal.com]

hugs?

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I like the lyrics. I'll have to look that song up.

In other news, um, the Turing Test thing is actually kind of really not what it seems to be at all (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07284327524/no-computer-did-not-pass-turing-test-first-time-everyone-should-know-better.shtml). Basically, the fellow making the claim is really prone to making terrible science journalism claims like this, it's a chatbot script rather than any kind of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence, it's certainly not the first time a chatbot or other script has managed to fool humans, and by telling the judges it was a 13 year old boy from the Ukraine they rather gamed the system anyway.

Because we're living in the future now, it's really easy to get excited about wild claims. It really could happen! I, for one, am prepared to welcome our new robot masters. ;) Unfortunately this time wasn't all that exciting. We'll be dodging bolts from SkyNet any day now. Annnnnny day.

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

Thanks for clearing that up—I was just about to come here to post about it! :)

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Commenting again to say I have posted a thing to the Killing Floor. I figure, I'm getting back into the headspace to work with Jazz and Savin again, why not have the Idol peeps look over the first chapter of their book? ;)

http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/746485.html?thread=74158069#t74158069

^ my comment to the Killing Floor, if anyone is curious. :)

Enjoying the last few moments that I have Sarah here AND she is working on her entry some more as I type. I am trying to write, too, but the scene I'm playing with is just so! damn! AWKWARD! that it's hard to write. Awkwardly painful, in the sense of "We haven't seen each other in six months and oh, you did something really hurtful to me and now I am here, in your apartment, looking for help/forgiveness/something."

But I am relishing in the awkwardness, too. ;)

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love putting my characters in terribly awkward positions. It's probably one of my favorite kinds of scenes to write.

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

I swallowed a bug on the way home from Sam's this morning and it feels like it's still trying to dance the Macarena in my belly. It's pouring, I'm being forced to look for a new job because the restaurant I'm at now is failing, and I've got a wicked case of writer's block on this topic. *huddles under blankets with her tea and her cat*

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

So now you need to swallow a spider right? Because that always works. Tea and a cat sound lovely; then tickle your muse until she gets with it and gives you some words.

It's going to be hot here today, I'm a little envious of you folks with the rain.

[malruniel11.livejournal.com]

Is it optimism or folly to wear sandals on a day that started out pouring rain and should rain on and off all day? So far, since I put the sandals on, it's stopped raining, clouds have scattered and turned white and fluffy... Perhaps I have magic sandals?

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

I am still working on my entry. I need to finish and post it. I am actually semi-awake since baby slept for six hours straight last night which is a serious miracle in my world.

[gratefuladdict.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!! My son didn't start sleeping through the night until he was about a year, and now that he has ALL FOUR molars coming in at the same time, he's back to waking up two or three times. Glad you got some good rest!

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

Today's a pretty normal day for me; work, run, dinner. I'm just doing it all on less sleep than usual because of the Tony's last night, which were fun as a show but particularly awesome because someone I know won!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

At the vet right now. Something happened that has never happened before. I'm scared.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Thinking good thoughts for you.

[ryl.livejournal.com]

I knew the machines would rise up and destroy us all eventually. How am I so certain? A friend of mine is working on technology that will one day be the foundation of Skynet.

He gets really mad at me when I tease him about it, too.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Ember update: She's OK for now, I think...I hope. She had an unexpected turn while waiting for the vet where she tried to vomit but couldn't. She then wobbled around like she was drunk...then went ~boom~ on the floor. She was conscious and gave me kissies when I bent down to scritch her. It's never happened before; hence, my fright when I posted upthread :points:

She had a battery of tests done back in February with normal results, so the vet doesn't want to repeat them (a couple of them were very hard on Ember, so...um, yeah.) So right now things are inconclusive and we're to keep an eye on her. If it happens again, she's to go to the local animal hospital STAT.

And...oh yeah, I've got to finish an entry, don't I?

:puts head in hands:

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[rswndrlst.livejournal.com]

Yay I haz entry!

http://rswndrlst.livejournal.com/6462.html

It's getting down to the wire but if'n anyone's around I wouldn't mind a beta on my tenses and grammar before the polls go up.

Thanks ^>^

[jexia]

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Thought you could use a few extra ;) Left some feedback on your post.