#technocalypse

🤖🍔🍟 BEEP BOOP: When Your Burger is Served by Skynet and Not SpongeBob! 🍿🎥🛸

🤖🌐👽 The Invasion of the AI Burgernators 👾💻🛰️

Zombies? Pfft, so last decade! 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️ Presenting a sci-fi scenario that's scarier than an encounter with a Demogorgon - Fast food chains are betting their golden arches on AI tech for drive-thrus, igniting more debates than a Star Wars vs Star Trek convention! 🌌🍔🤔

🤖📝🔊 Beep Boop, Can I Take Your Order? 🎙️🔈🎛️

Picture this, pulling up to your fav munchie palace and having your Big Mac order taken by something that sounds more like Wall-E than a human. Welcome to 2023, folks, where the employees at your fast food joint might just be silicon-based lifeforms! 🍔💼👾

🍟💭👎 Do Androids Dream of Perfect Orders? 🧠🥴🤷‍♀️

Order mix-ups are as common as time-travel paradoxes in Doctor Who. It's like these AIs are more on the fritz than R2-D2 in a sandstorm! And the poor human at the next window faces more wrath than Jon Snow at a White Walker family reunion! 🍔🍍🌶️

💳💰📈 Cash or Credit? Nah, Just More Data Please! 💽💾💿

While businesses are rolling in dough like Scrooge McDuck, we're left wondering if our fast food craving is creating a capitalist monster scarier than anything H.P. Lovecraft could conjure up! 💸👹🌀

🤑📈🍔 Upselling Unleashed: More Relentless Than a T-1000 🍦🍩🚀

Upselling used to be a choice, now it's as inevitable as Thanos. AI's constant nudging to super-size or add a side of fries is like falling for a Jedi mind trick. 🍟🤷‍♀️💫

👷🏽‍♂️❄️👑 Labor's Night King: The AI Overlord 👨‍🔬🔮⚙️

For the worker bees, this tech invasion could steal jobs faster than Flash running on cosmic treadmills. It's a digital "you're fired" faster than a warp drive on the USS Enterprise! 👨‍🍳🔥⚡️

🧑🏽‍💼👋🏽 Can We Just Have Some Human Touch, Please? 🙌💖🥺

Remember when seeing a human at the other end of the speaker was as common as Batman brooding over Gotham? Sometimes we just want a smile with our side of fries. 🍟😄

I found myself most troubled by a passage detailing a dystopian scenario:

The New Luddite Challenge

First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines and no human effort will be necessary. Either of two cases might occur. The machines might be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight, or else human control over the machines might be retained.

If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can't make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all the power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.

On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite - just as it is today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.

They will see to it that everyone's physical needs are satisfied, that all children are raised under psychologically hygienic conditions, that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and that anyone who may become dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure his "problem." Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or make them "sublimate" their drive for power into some harmless hobby. These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.1

Day 22 Flashback

Song: Technocalypse

Artist: CDVR

Album: Electronic Play

Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Rap