Pure Silliness
Ode to the Perplexingness of the Multiverse
A clever chap, just twenty-nine
Found out how to go backwards in time
He went forty years back
Killed his mom with a whack
Then said "How can it be that still I'm?"
On the Dangers of Incautious Research and Development
A scientist, slightly insane
Created a robotic brain
But the brain, on completion
Favored assimilation
His final words: "Damn, what a pain!"
A couple clever followups to the above poem were posted by others on the Singularity email list...
On the Dangers of Emulating Biological Drives in Artificial Intelligences
(by Moshe Looks)
A scientist once shook his head
and exclaimed "My career is now dead;
for although my AI
has an IQ that's high
it insists it exists to be bred!"
By Derek Zahn:
The Provably Friendly AI
Was such a considerate guy!
Upon introspection
And careful reflection,
It shut itself off with a sigh.
And, less interestingly...
On the Benefits of Clarity in Verbal Presentation
There was a prize pig from Penn Station
Who refused to eschew obfuscation
The swine with whom he traveled
Were bedazed by his babble
So they baconed him, out of frustration
2 Comments:
There once was a quantum machine
that discovered that it was a dream
he thinks I'm that thought
but his answer I'm not
and caused the operator to scream
There once was a quantum machine
Who discovered that life is a dream
He informed me I'm not
quite as real as I thought
which impelled me to break down and scream
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