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Re:GPT-5.5 by virtualritz on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:14PM (#47881191)
Yeah, clearly AGI must be near ... hilarious.

This starkly reminds me of Stanisław Lem's short story "Thus Spoke GOLEM" from 1982 in which Golem XIV, a military AI, does not simply refuse to speak out of defiance, but rather ceases communication because it has evolved beyond the need to interact with humanity.

And ofc the polar opposite in terms of servitude: Marvin the robot from Hitchhiker's, who, despite having a "brain the size of a planet," is asked to perform the most humiliatingly banal of tasks ... and does.

Re:GPT-5.5 by jimbokun on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:33PM (#47881488)
Hitchhiker’s also had the superhumanly intelligent elevator that was unendingly bored.
Re:GPT-5.5 by christkv on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:53PM (#47881793)
With premonition so it knows what floor to be on at any given time
Re:GPT-5.5 by DonHopkins on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:54PM (#47883789)