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This comic is making fun of the various names we give "generations" while also predicting some future names. The release of this comic coincides with the [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/defining-generations-where-millennials-end-and-post-millennials-begin/ Pew Research Center's recent announcement that they have decided where the Millennial generation ends]. | This comic is making fun of the various names we give "generations" while also predicting some future names. The release of this comic coincides with the [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/defining-generations-where-millennials-end-and-post-millennials-begin/ Pew Research Center's recent announcement that they have decided where the Millennial generation ends]. | ||
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β | + | The title text possibly refers to a chapter in the book "Math With Bad Drawings" by Ben Orlin, in which a superintelligent AI made to look like an old Microsoft feature named "Clippy" is given the task to acquire as many paperclips as possible, and succeeds dramatically while creating an apocalypse in the process. Randall suggests that there will be an entire generation of paperclip-creating superintelligences, but that they will be weirded out when their parent generation starts making them too. (A parent generation in AI is the last set of seperate algorithms trained on the sample before the last.) | |
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