alt.hn

5/23/2025 at 12:09:33 PM

A 2030 Morning Routine

 https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_120_morning_routine_2030/

by LorenDB

5/23/2025 at 1:12:18 PM

One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

by _fat_santa

5/23/2025 at 1:30:18 PM

Yeah, I would also prefer to rename a smart house controlling agent to "robo butler 9000" just because its funny. I dont want a human slave. I want to feel like Im in a weirdly funny episode of Futurama

by hoppp

5/23/2025 at 9:51:42 PM

I think I find the trend of giving AI products names of persons sort of uncanny, exactly because of that: It implies that a lot of the people in charge of naming those products do empathize with the idea of wanting human slaves, or at least human butlers...

by xg15

5/23/2025 at 1:28:45 PM

I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)

by ginko

5/23/2025 at 12:14:33 PM

Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)

by hansmayer

5/23/2025 at 12:40:41 PM

Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your feet.

There will be fewer and fewer of us in years to come, but real estate doesn’t grow on trees!

by aerhardt

5/23/2025 at 1:34:24 PM

They can make electricity with your pedalling. Like a dystopic hamster wheel powered office. All bodily functions can be monetized

by hoppp

5/23/2025 at 3:51:10 PM

While I generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if you're good at doing something then never do it for free", but my company is welcome to my shit for free.

by DrillShopper

5/23/2025 at 5:51:13 PM

First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-...

Next - they will take the resulting "output" physical mess and turn dump it into a methane fuel-generating waste-treatment plant.

If that still doesn't make enough $$$, and your measured productivity metrics are not good enough, don't worry - if you also end-up living in one of the "techbro sponsored corporate feudal city-states" you can always help the company by being turned into "biodiesel":

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

by jjkaczor

5/23/2025 at 12:36:23 PM

Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?

by decimalenough

5/23/2025 at 1:12:26 PM

That's all organic artizan voiceover, not like the unhealthy garbage AI voiceover the lesser cool people use.

by mrtksn

5/23/2025 at 2:44:27 PM

Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.

by barryrandall

5/24/2025 at 8:25:49 AM

[Exaggerated rant incoming]

You clearly haven’t listened to enough ”state of the art” AI voices. Even in languages blessed with centuries’ worth of training data the butchered proper nouns and misemphasized syllables are grating.

As a misguided side effect of RLHF, the models which occasionally succeed in hiding their monotony will just indiscriminately vary the speech with a random patchwork of poorly timed pauses and melodic patterns. Good luck maintaining cohesion and semantic grouping of words.

And that’s for the five or so widely used easy languages.

God forbid your European car manufacturer, instead of using the completely adequate and predictably consistent Siri-style GOFAI solution, decided to use some cheap Elevenlabs-copycat API for localised driving directions.

Now you’re dealing with bandwidth and latency issues, pronunciation that constantly changes, and utterly unusable performance in your 10 million speaker ”niche” language. For many of these languages rule-based algorithms were good enough and our solar system will freeze before you accumulate enough training data for the current generation TTS to perform well.

by djhn

5/23/2025 at 1:09:34 PM

likely boorishly contrived for this style of storytelling

by someothherguyy

5/23/2025 at 8:08:07 PM

“All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=135

by roywiggins

5/24/2025 at 1:23:13 PM

Marvin would be right at home in our tineline

by rcarmo

5/23/2025 at 12:30:19 PM

I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

by keiferski

5/23/2025 at 1:08:08 PM

I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?

by nemo1618

5/23/2025 at 6:43:22 PM

I don’t think he was super interested in AI, more trans humanism and biology related things.

by keiferski

5/23/2025 at 2:45:41 PM

The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.

by nancyminusone

5/23/2025 at 1:47:51 PM

Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.

by Jotalea

5/23/2025 at 12:33:10 PM

Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.

by randunel

5/23/2025 at 12:35:03 PM

Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?

by HenryBemis

5/23/2025 at 1:21:49 PM

Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.

by crims0n

5/23/2025 at 12:42:32 PM

I lost it at "shower buddy"

by explorigin

5/23/2025 at 12:42:59 PM

> Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

That’s definitely the bad place

by Yossarrian22

5/23/2025 at 12:29:22 PM

Ballardian.

by nickdothutton

5/23/2025 at 4:07:55 PM

No remote work?

by tkiolp4

5/23/2025 at 12:35:12 PM

H2G2

by iamgopal

5/23/2025 at 1:06:46 PM

This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.

by tacheiordache

5/24/2025 at 12:40:46 AM

The best satire is all too true to life.

by binary132