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2026-03-21 14:34 UTC

@Twotired@universeodon.com I worked on computer vision stuff in 2012-2013. It's absolutely fascinating stuff and I'd love to mess around with it again. AI chatbots aren't even a new thing either, they're just being marketed as a "new" because the Transformer ANN circuitry makes them appear better at interaction, but it doesn't make them self-aware, reliable or sentient. All the Eliza effect like problems happening now have known about for decades - the difference is it is being mass marketed.

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@kelpana@mastodon.ie 2026-03-21 14:39

@Twotired@universeodon.com I worked with an artist on an art project back in 2015. It was an FSM written in Python playing a well matched video loop recorded by an actress. It was running an OpenCV face detector and a really basic human voice detector. Based on conditions it played varying sections of the video loop. It was running on a Raspberry Pi and put in a black booth with a TV. It was presented as an "AI therapist" and people genuinely thought this random video player was talking to them!

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@RcrdSgrd@mastodon.ie 2026-03-22 14:49

@kelpana@mastodon.ie @Twotired@universeodon.com Thanks, I hadn't heard of the ELIZA effect before! Now I know why I get sooo annoyed when the shed door blows shut on my back. (i.e. it's not doing it on purpose)

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