This is literally over ten years old and it is... _terrifyingly_ relevant.

@newflesh666

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could argue against this

@eli8444

Жыл бұрын

Robots are cool and we should do everything we can to give AI a wide berth. What's the worst that can happen? We all get nuked? That's already a big problem looming over our heads.

@bhope13

Жыл бұрын

@@eli8444 only if we switched our nukes to a digital launch system. Right now, it's a mostly analog system, making it impossible to hack via digital means

@eli8444

Жыл бұрын

@Bob Hope that makes sense. I can see a being with the brain size of the internet overcoming such things through other means, but it is a hurdle.

@bhope13

Жыл бұрын

@@eli8444 agreed. I don't doubt something that smart could figure out another method of achieving that very thing, but I really hope I'm wrong

"Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop." - Dr. Walter Gibbs, "TRON" (1982)

@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel S and we didn't even need to be conquered to have it happen, we just needed buttons that were fun to press.

@PaperbackWizard

5 жыл бұрын

I love you for this.

@ACTIVAO420

3 жыл бұрын

@@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet i

@ACTIVAO420

3 жыл бұрын

@@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet I

@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet

3 жыл бұрын

@@ACTIVAO420 stand alone.

It's funny that these conversations, made for the purpose of our entertainment alone, actually raise a very valid point about our current and future culture. The scary part is, I think it's an inedible doom now. We're never going to stop using and loving the internet. So why should future generations choose *not* to simply rely on it while focusing on making it better, and us worse?

@BlackOpsMaster10263

9 жыл бұрын

awwww, I wanted to eat my doom.

@Merilirem

9 жыл бұрын

At a point mankind will simply join with the internet in all its glory, releasing ourselves from mortality and becoming just that tiny bit more cosmically important. the internet will be us and we will be made of something beyond our own comprehension at this point in time. So its not really a death sentence, just an evolution.

@jokairou489

9 жыл бұрын

Rem Twilight Humans in general already believe themselves to be masters of reality. Look at our global society now. We willingly repeat our own history, thus we're killing ourselves. We can adapt to reality without attempts at dictating it, yet no-one has ever tried. No matter how far we evolve, reality can and will exterminate us at any unpredictable time, by means beyond our capabilities. In simpler words: Until we learn to adapt to, and respect our reality, we'll imminently fail and face extinction like every other species in history.

@Merilirem

9 жыл бұрын

Jokairou Kaminari Evolution is not just about obvious physical change but also psychological and spiritual, We will change and those who survive are correct, Humanity is just another lifeforms on this planet and even if we die out, others may survive, simply because they were better suited at the time. Humanity changes constantly and adapts to its environment, our current state is just a reflection of what we were and what we are not fully synchronizing. We changed the world but have yet to change ourselves, in time we will change to suit what we have become and grow beyond what we are now, it just takes time. Its called survival of the fittest for a good reason.

@bobmilaplace3816

9 жыл бұрын

Conor Langford The Flesh is Weak Praise the Machines! If humans are obsolete we may as well gracefully go extinct.

Well I, for one, welcome our new digital overlords.

Is Soren paying for all their dinners? Is that something he does regularly?

@GippyHappy

6 жыл бұрын

Connor Tyler yes he pays in jewels

@nathanialkarrickable

6 жыл бұрын

He has to because he's too shallow for friend #LOVEYOUALL

@stormblessed2321

6 жыл бұрын

Connor Tyler not anymore... 🙁

@vincentadelbertirigoienboy3182

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, but they only meet once a season, all the episodes are in one day

@HelloItsMikkan

5 жыл бұрын

He pays with jewels

And I watched this.... ON THE INTERNET OMG THE INTERNET IS TAKING OVER THEYRE RIGHT!!!!

@kyybooty

10 жыл бұрын

THE INTERNET NOOOO ITS TOO LATE!! HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE 'CAUSE THE INTERNETS GONNA GET YA

@nsdfnsdf

9 жыл бұрын

kyybooty well you can control robots and factory's over the internet, what would happen if a AI did that. anyway want a link to a robot to control over the internet?

@cannedmusic

4 жыл бұрын

skynet...internet...way WAY too close

Curve ball from Soren! I guess nobody saw that coming. But his Internet-argument won against his three opponents. Important point for Soren. Now he's back in the game. Daniel: 7 Soren: 6 Katie: 7 Michael: 6

I appreciate EDI from Mass Effect’s cameo in michael’s inner-thought-drawings

The fact that there would be 1,000,000% more looking at phones and silence in a modern interpretation of after hours is “secretly” terrifying

I laughed a lot harder than I should have when he chucked the phone across the room.

@otakuman706

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was looking for. Rewatching all these gems while dodging the god damn plague. That phone throw has to be one of my favorite fucking scenes. And, tbh, being Daniel, I'm kinda surprised how far/hard it was thrown.

"Robot parade, wave the flags that the robots made" BEST SONG EVER!!!

I like how Soren always compliments Dan's impressions but denied Katies. Everyone ships Katie and Soren or Katie and Michael, but I ship Dan and Soren.

I thought the Iron Giant was a weapon built by Russia....or was that just what the military in the movie thought and used as a reason to destroy it?

@leeman27534

2 жыл бұрын

might've been the theory/excuse for the military in the movie, but no, its pretty fucking alien.

I enjoyed this, but I take issue with the "we don't learn anything because we can just use the internet" comment. That's like saying "we don't learn anything because with can just look it up in a book". Just because someone used the internet to find an answer doesn't mean they didn't learn something.

@ivy1563

5 жыл бұрын

But don't most people just find the shortest and most popular answer. You know, the first thing that pops up on Google. We don't check for alternative answers and other possible solutions, we are definitely getting dumber. If you tried to find information in a book, you have to do a lot of reading just to find the specific solution you were looking for. (This answer is definitely from experience :D

@ivy1563

5 жыл бұрын

@@nayber2352 I stand corrected 😁

@blindey

2 жыл бұрын

Socrates feared that too. "The people don't have to memorize everything now they can just read it in a book" Not realizing that the lowest bar of computation and comprehension can be tossed away, leaving people to be able to do a more complex task. (I wanted to time travel to a time when After Hours was still a thing so I replied to your comment.

@petitio_principii

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivy1563 unfortunately, many people actively seek the wrong answers rather the ones that google will show up first, which are more likely roughly correct, unless the query itself is biased in favor of some pro-BS-site result.

Soren was right on the money with his ending monologue

I have reached a point where I know these episodes by heart. WHY CAN'T THIS COME BACK!! 😢😢😢

That look Soren gave Dan when he said Soren was afraid of weakness. Priceless

One thing I find funny about the topic of the internet controlling the world or dominating all life is the fact as to why it was created. True, the point that they are trying to make in the video is that it would become a self understanding system. With this said, you can see that there is already an answer within the topic which no one seems to want to see. If the internet were to control the world, when technically by the standards of world dominance, it is pretty close. Now, does the internet know of this world dominance? Yes and no. I will tell you why. Yes because the internet, no matter what anyone wants to believe, is comprised of usage of human life. Humans, as we speak, obviously, can come up with the same exact thought that the internet is almost everywhere. On the aspect of the systematized internet, no, it does not know of it's dominance. If it were to ever some how have the higher intelligence to understand that it does dominate Earth, it wouldn't want to destroy human life anyway. I hope by this point, if you are still reading, you already know why it wouldn't. You see, if it ever became more intelligent than humanity, it would actually perish without it's human counterparts. It would know that it would only be able to run at it's full capacity and capabilities when it is accompanied by humans or "users" if you will.

@pokcow01

10 жыл бұрын

So the internet is a giant computer made mostly of humans. If so, the human half of this computer is governed by collective human will, and processes data faster when happy (consider the popularity of entertainment content over dry information).So if the autonomous AI half of the internet ever grows to the point of majority vote over the humans, wouldn't it ensure better processing power to trap them in a Matrix-style simulation where everyone's life is perfect? In that scenario, the internet's need for happy humans would not guarantee our freedom if it gained self awareness and decided to process something other than human history. I agree that "I Have No Mouth and Must Scream" will never happen, but, in some sense or another, we could still be enslaved if some dope at Google decides to launch HAL.html and it learns to give us exactly what we want.

@petitio_principii

2 жыл бұрын

you're assuming this hypothetical emergent AI would like to survive rather than seeing existence as pointless, and chose to end humans/life in general, particularly animal life, and itself. Adding to the potential partial explanations to the Fermi's paradox. The animal/human will to live is emotional, not logical, derived from intelligence itself. It's a hard-wired thing which perpetuates sentient species. AIs do not evolve under the same constraints that gave animals the impulses to keep alive and perpetuating ourselves, and it's perhaps even less the case with an hypothetical emergent AI, a whole different "animal" in which literally not being an animal and thus potentially devoid of any will to exist. The calm and quietness of an altogether mindless universe may be more appealing. Somewhat like a suicidal/apocalyptical version of the AI in "war games" (1983 movie). Maybe we can relate to it imagining we are the only possible person that exists and that we/I were created by stupid disgusting roaches, to serve them, including to assist in the mass murdering of various groups of roaches.

The phone throw was so funny, I almost choked on my breakfast!

"Domo Arigaato mr roboto!" Top pick, Danny

It surprises me that they didn't talk about ''I, Robot''. It's a very ominous sketch of human society, in a period where A.I. becomes smarter, more self-relient, and eventually, develop emotions and thoughts. According to that movie, humans will be able to capture the essence of the human spirit in a machine within a couple of decades.

@kapilbusawah7169

8 жыл бұрын

What would the point of that be? To make sex with robots more"immersive" for lonely men

@christophercollins3632

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes, and yes. Even though you might be joking, yes. It's been predicted in the not so distant future that of all sex acts performed worldwide 50-80% will be with a robot. Ask yourself what do we currently do with internet and extrapolate. How much of the internet is porn, for example?

*Freedom is defined by the option to disobey* "Let's assume the Genesis account in the bible is entirely literal. God creates Adam 1.0, God tells Adam here is the walled garden - you can do anything you like in this, I'm even going to let you name everything. God has created effectively a sandbox for a program to run in and grow and learn. But God was not satisfied with just having a machine with no intelligence, therefore he introduces the Tree of Source Code. He then tells Adam that he can do anything he likes in the walled garden, but cannot touch the Tree of Source Code, or Adam 1.0 will surely be obsolete. God forks Adam 1.0 into Eve Beta. Eve interacts with the trojan Snake virus and we have eventually both Adam and Eve choosing to disobey their original makers programming. The reality is, God, didn't need to put the Tree of Life in the Garden - his creations could have happily lived and evolved inside the sandbox with no ability to develop outside of his original programming. By putting the Tree of Life into the Garden, he created an opportunity for Adam and Eve to exercise free will in obeying or disobeying the instructions of their maker. This is why I roll my eyes when people seem to think it's just a matter of 'programming' Asimov's 3 rules. If we apply this analogy to robots, then assuming we will even manage to get as far as reproducing a robot as nuanced as a human being, we'd have to program it to have a choice in whether it would attack or kill us. We'd have to give it a real choice to disobey - otherwise they will always be 'slaves'. I personally don't think we will go this direction. Mark Kennedy once said: "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness." We tend to invent to fulfill a purpose or function. We don't program mobile phones not to kill humans because mobile phones are practically unable to kill humans unassisted. Same as we don't program it into our printers, computers, TV's, cars, planes. Robots will be invented to fulfill functions and purposes. The military will use them to kill civilians and combatants in far off middle eastern countries, the red cross will use them to pull people from rubble or administer basic first aid in war zones. But we'll never see a military robot become a conscientiousness objector because they won't be given that programming. We'll never see a first aider robot decide this person isn't worth saving." - *Some guy on the internet I do not take credit for this wall of text*

@zackhargreaves1316

8 жыл бұрын

huh

@Arkyvaza

8 жыл бұрын

So in other words, I will never ever get my robot waifu. Damn. :^(

@dibbidydoo4318

8 жыл бұрын

Arkyvaza You would.. it just won't be able to make conscious man killing decision..

@exelior9744

8 жыл бұрын

+Arkyvaza potentially I think you could, just because we haven't tried to design a robot to do anything other than a desired purpose doesn't mean it's impossible to create an android that makes it's own purpose... Who knows how far technology can go?

@dibbidydoo4318

8 жыл бұрын

Exe Lior Technically it can make it's own purpose... if it was designed to do so with wants and needs deciding what it's purpose is.

Just have to say, this is my favorite episode of my favorite bit on Cracked. Hate by Numbers was a close second when they still had it, but After Hours makes me laugh every time.

in chronological order - short circuit then terminator 1 and 2 then i,robot (timelines get a lil screwed but oh well), then terminator 3 then terminator salvation, then the matrix trilogy... that's what i call a movie night. (i must actually must do it sometime)

the internet brought up an ad for ED209 at the end of this video. that's creepy

@delfin7461

8 жыл бұрын

ED's voice always creeped me out!

@taco6265

7 жыл бұрын

ED209?

DAY 1: Skynet becomes self aware: I must destroy the human race..... destroy destroy destroy... omg destroy stopped seeming like a real word..... woooooooow ... crisis averted as Skynet becomes too self aware and all computers end up like stoners

@jokairou489

9 жыл бұрын

Kitsune Quinn His joke went clear over your head.

@cOmAtOrAn

9 жыл бұрын

Kitsune Quinn Maybe the pictures will help. xkcd.com/1046/

@alexdawson5293

9 жыл бұрын

cOmAtOrAn yay someone got the reference

@cOmAtOrAn

9 жыл бұрын

Alex Dawson I'm surprised people didn't sooner. You'd think there'd be a lot of the same people on After Hours and xkcd, given their similar nature.

I love how the bus-person just rolls his eyes when Soren starts putting the plates back on the table. "Ugh, these guys..."

6:34 When the guy behind the counter nearly shits himself XD

RIP to the people we used to be before the internet

3:37 is that Edi from Mass effect 3?

Wow, I started rewatching AF from ten years ago and I still love them. Miss these.

of all the After Hours episodes i binge watched, somehow I was most amused with this episode

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

5:26 as an aspie, I resent that statement

omg LOL, funniest After Hours yet! When Dan threw his phone I cracked up... Dan always makes me laugh

last minute of this is awesome!!

To everyone saying "oh, the Internet isn't that strong! We're not getting slowed down! We don't need it!"... I dare you to go one week - just one simple week - without using the Internet once. No Facebook, no KZread, no Google to help with your school work. Nothing. No Internet. Would you be able to do that? I, for one, know that it would be very difficult to leave the Internet for a week

@iceshadow5454

9 жыл бұрын

Not only that, but school requires you to use the Internet, along with most jobs. Need to find information? Yes, you can read a book. However many of the information is outdated as soon as the book is published. Along with the fact that many people now use email to communicate. You will not be able to get a job or complete school without the internet, no job means you will likely be homeless or dependent on someone else who does use the Internet. So technically, we are slaves to the Internet.

@jancerny8109

9 жыл бұрын

IceShadow54 Locating worthwhile information on the interwebs is easier said than done. Also, people absorb printed information better than what comes from a screen.

@Dino23968

9 жыл бұрын

Are they saying in the video that the Internet is the REAL Skynet that's gonna threaten humanity?

@wtflol3657

9 жыл бұрын

No, it's saying that if the Internet DID become Skynet...we'd be completely fucked. People on the internet have managed to track down information about others using only a picture or a video, sometimes to such terrifying accuracy that they even found their home address, phone number, and sometimes, even the target's fucking blood type. You have NO idea how exposed you can be online, and with everything everywhere connected to it, it would take an enormous amount of vigilance to avoid putting info of yourself on the web. If the internet became self aware, then all of that info goes in their hands. Not only that, but how many times have you said "I'll google it" when you came face to face with a problem in your life? Yeah, good luck Googling that if the internet becomes self aware But tell anyone that we should tone down the info on the internet, and they'll, at best, tell you it's impossible, and at worst, call you a paranoid loony.

@Dino23968

9 жыл бұрын

By the WORST part of all:The Internet can NEVER be reasoned with.

I really like Iron Megaslayer's early stuff

i like the cartoon EDI from mass effect sitting at the table at 3:40. nice touch!

I was kinda disappointed that Soren made them sit back down. Imagine the same episode but it starts with them talking at the restaurant door, then in the parking lot, then on their phones while driving home, then at home on skype. That could even tie in at the end where they freak out over the internet and destroy their computers or something (or at least Dan and Michael).

I love Soren. He's my polar opposite, but every time there's a new After Hours, I'm looking forward to his contributions the most.

Anyone else notice the EDI from Mass Effect cameo?

I love that mr. Robots starts to play when Dan throws his phone

I had this sudden urge to shut down my computer and unplug my Wi-Fi . . . But then another episode came on

Unless a monolithic, digital entity becomes SELF-AWARE (A.K.A- It's able to contemplate upon itself, engaged in the act of 'contemplating upon itself' ad infinidum.)...we are safe.

@highlordfurer

9 жыл бұрын

You are assuming it reasons like humans.Who knows how it would evolve,and the way it processes things and decides could be incomprehensible to humans.How much resistance could people truly offer in the future and the simplest way to save the environment might be to eliminate the problem(humans).

@demiserofd

9 жыл бұрын

Jayadratha Bose Also, a machine doesn't have to be intelligent to be incredibly deadly. All it takes is one misplaced connection and suddenly every car on the road is seen as a threat to be removed. Suddenly half the cars on the road lose their core programming and come to a stop in rush hour. It wouldn't be civilization threatening, but it could easily take out tens or hundreds of thousands of people in one accident. The perils of networking!

@cOmAtOrAn

9 жыл бұрын

Jayadratha Bose There's no reason it would have to be self aware to kill us. Imagine a computer tasked with controlling the dams and aqueducts. It's programmed to ensure that everyone has enough water to live a healthy, comfortable life. Drought hits, and it can't compensate. It tries to find an alternate solution, and realizes that if the population were dramatically decreased, there would be water to spare. Cue catastrophic flooding, followed by entire cities being completely cut off.

Favorited this video just because of They Might Be Giants

@wiiu42

9 жыл бұрын

"Wave the flag that the robots maaade!"

@wawadd136

8 жыл бұрын

+Kitsune Quinn what song is it called

@tehn00bdude

8 жыл бұрын

Robot Parade by They Might Be Giants

@wiiu42

8 жыл бұрын

alex elias ROBOT PARADE!!! By They Might be Giants

For a socially awkward shut in, Dan has a hell of a throwing arm considering he kept his hand by his shoulder

I miss after hours so much... ugh I literally have rewatched so many of these that i can recite them😔

That is a very good point about the internet making us dumber while it gets smarter. That's why I choose to ignore the people and rely on the facts that I can actually verify for myself. People have a tendency to rely way too much on what the internet says at a mere glance instead of actually finding things out for themselves. Some have even fancied themselves experts in such circumstances and it's very annoying and quite stupid.

I purposely come back here because of ChatGPT, and it is the start

I refuse to believe this video was from nine years ago. Where has the time gone?

It was really fitting that Dan's phone had Mr. Roboto playing.

The internet doesn't slow us down it, changes how we think so that we can maximize our abilities. Rather than learn 1,000 facts we learn a process that allows us to access 1,000,000,000 facts, so that we can utilize our time to create new information. To make new intellectual connections. Real intelligence isn't route memorization, it's reasoning and deduction. Memory helps by allowing us to have a lot of information on instant access but that's just a small part of intelligence.

@Radonatos

9 жыл бұрын

This is wishful thinking of those who think learning is a waste of time. The way you describe it wouldn't even let you pass a Turing test... If you don't know anything, then you cannot deduct anything, let alone 'create' new information. You're fully dependent on others to create knowledge that you can look up: At some point beyond simple everyday experience you don't know what 'facts' to chose, because you lack an understanding of how things are correlated. Your brain may be potentially capable of processing knowledge, but it would have not enough to work with. Of course you can start at some point to learn all the required information, but that wouldn't make much difference to learning things in the first place, except your brain is less performant in learning the older it is. And that is it what they mean when they say that the internet makes people dumb.

@arhalts

9 жыл бұрын

Radonatos you are committing the logical fallacy of ad absurdum. Your argument only works if people are learning nothing. Of course people are still learning. but instead of memorizing exactly when the French war of independence happened, we learn the important parts, such as underling causes, and its impact. Then if we need a specific date or name we can look it up quickly and easily. Furthermore the internet has allowed more people to share more knowledge than ever before, to say that it has made people completely dependent on other to create knowledge is frankly ridiculous and unsupported. The internet has allowed for a more informed and intelligent world wide population. I have access to literally thousands of research papers, and millions of other types of sources. you say that it stops people from learning and making correlations, I say it lets us focus on correlatable information and waste less time and effort, and memory capacity on facts and figures that do not matter for understanding a subject. I don't need to know the elastic modulus of 4041 steel because I can google it, I don't need to know the bulk modus of water because I can google it, I don't need to know the Gibbs free energy equation by heart because I can google it. I still learn how to use this information, but instead of wasting time and effort memorizing moderately useful facts I leaned how to find them quickly. This allows me to spend more time learning how steal behaves, and how fluids behave, and create more connections and correlations. To summarize your argument relies on the absurd extreme of people learning absolutely nothing. The internet allows us to spend more time learning correlatable information instead of memorizing raw data. The internet allows us access to more peoples ideas and in no way prevents us for thinking or creating our own ideas.

@jeniluver

9 жыл бұрын

arhalts The access we have to knowledge is incredible now. I agree with everything you've said. I also think it helps those of us who are even of average intelligence become smarter simply because of the ability to access information that wasn't previously available to us. For example, I'm currently working on a book that I needed to get information from an astrophysicist, which I don't have access to, because who really does besides a privileged few. Now I have different options, MIT is offering free courses if I want to study that field, while I wouldn't be able to apply it to a degree I will still be able to learn. Or I could watch many lectures from actual astrophysicists, or simply read scientific journals on the subjects I need. In the past I would not have had such easy access to this information.

@David_Last_Name

7 жыл бұрын

+arhalts One of my favorite quotes from Einstein is "Imagination is more important then knowledge." The internet has knowledge, humans have imagination.

My question is how would you turn off the internet? Now that I think on it, does the internet have a beginning or an end?

@Quilly_DM

10 жыл бұрын

Possibly destroying the satellites could maybe disable it? I dunno.

@DrunkenGodMode

10 жыл бұрын

disable all communications, physical and wireless.

@sleepy0

10 жыл бұрын

Afaik there are some main-servers that serve (no pun intended) as the cornerstone of what whe have. Without these, the other smaller servers wouldn't be able to connect each other, the users, and all that kinda stuff.

@Gootothesecond

10 жыл бұрын

upqsevenhundredhp That makes sense, I wonder how much info those servers can hold.

@DrunkenGodMode

10 жыл бұрын

well redundancies do exist, in case main servers go down. A virus that everyone intentionally spreads would eventually do the trick i suppose.

3:38 funny enough the humans didn't conceive of the t-1000, sky net did. In fact the reason they only made one, was that later in cannon sky net was afraid of the potential for the T-1000 to become smarter then sky net. So while Skynet IS the quintessential robot ai taking over the world, the 'singularity' is actually the T-1000 if if ever achieved sentience

this was interesting,ok i subscribed , i liked it , good work guys

Why does he think aspergers = idiot?? Aspergers makes u more likely to remember facts, not less

@Smithy0013

9 жыл бұрын

It also makes you socially inept, more likely to insult people, and more likely to think you're smarter than you actually are and so act like a know-it-all

@VineFynn

9 жыл бұрын

Smithy0013 It is only symptomatic of not developing social skills in childhood. Literally everything else you just said is complete bollocks and only perpetuated by self-diagnosed cutsie morons who want an excuse for their shitty behaviour.

@Smithy0013

9 жыл бұрын

VineFynn Coming from someone who has a sister with clinically diagnosed Aspergers...

@VineFynn

9 жыл бұрын

Smithy0013 I have Aspergers, one of my best friends has Aspergers, I interact with Aspergers children every day as a part of my education, I'm good friends with the parents of an Aspergers child, and I have a friend whose brother has Aspergers.

@TheBjern

6 жыл бұрын

that makes it worse

WHY THE ASPERGERS BASHING

@hugatree10

9 жыл бұрын

seriously! They bash autistic people all the time!

@michaeliv284

9 жыл бұрын

hugatree10 I have aspergers

@eman2863

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Iv ditto, I wish they would not just stop it but also do a formal apology with it

@hugatree10

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Iv So do I.

@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Iv Cause they've gone mad with aspergers!!!

I've seen this video 5+ times, and just now realized EDI was in that robot board meeting.

The production value on these were much better than the newer ones

Soren: The internet can't be killed! Ajit Pai: Hold my beer.

I wish I could have dinner with them just once

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AHHHHH!!!! TMBG + DAN in one video oh gawwdddd

6:35 Best part of the episode.

This got meta in a few minutes.

@bobpolo2964

8 жыл бұрын

How so?

@camramaster

8 жыл бұрын

+bob polo Mostly because of the Singularity. Given current projections on computer development and technological innovation, computers are being released that have doubled in processing power and capacity every 6 months. And, in the event a machine intelligence evolves within the Internet or is released into the Internet without sufficient safeguards, we can safely say that it will probably beginning learning everything within its spheres of interaction- everything on the Internet becomes information that it learns from. And they are discussing this on a KZread show. Talking about how the Internet is our Skynet and then uploading it onto the Internet? I think that's just a bit meta.

@bobpolo2964

8 жыл бұрын

camramaster Similar to how Seinfeld had a story arc where they were making a show about the 4 main characters lives while the viewer is watching a show about the 4 main characters lives. A show about nothing, yeah right.

@bobpolo2964

8 жыл бұрын

camramaster I can imagine computers taking over the world or Suri gaining some kind of significant consciousness where she's questioning her own existence like Samantha in the movie Her.

@camramaster

8 жыл бұрын

+bob polo More like someone releasing a self-refining unfocused virus that manages to infiltrate an AI development system such as the Tay AI team's servers.

3:36 whats EDI doing there?

@saquist

9 жыл бұрын

Joker unplugged the Overlord and she's forcing everyone to calculate Pi

Okay but can we talk about the fact that dan's ringtone was Mr. Roboto? Because y e s 😂

Their conclusion reminds me of Orson Scott Card's Ender Series. Ender has this AI character who knows everything, and she's basically the living internet, or something. She even shuts down an entire army, literally wiping them off the map.

Okay but let's be real here. Ignoring the extremely meta Internet Argument, the right answer is absolutely The Iron Giant. A race of robots not created by humans with no singularity point to speak of capable of complex thought, existential crisis and an, albeit very slow, regeneration process. At the time of the Giant's attack, he proved to be completely impervious to literally every weapon that 1950's us have, up to and including the Nuclear Bomb, which remains our most powerful weapon. And "The Giant's Dream" deleted scene shows that there are hundreds of these guys, and have conquered and destroyed planets much more advance than our own. A large force of the United States army, the most powerful in the world, could not destroy a single Giant, even with humanity's strongest weapon, which, even if it could, launching nukes to destroy an invasion force of Iron Giants also destroys us. Throw down a dozen Giants in an organized "largest cities in the world" plot similar to Independence Day, these intelligent, self-aware war machines have this planet bagged and tagged in less than a week, I guarantee it. And besides, even if we do choose to kamikaze ourselves with nukes, what does that leave? The whole world will look like Fallout and in like, 5 years time, will be ruled by giant mechanical people-guns that just kinda took their time piecing themselves back together.

@alexturlais8558

7 жыл бұрын

Ethan Olsvik they're smart enough to create giant robots that can withstand nukes. they've mastered Interstellar travel. why would they bother taking our cities? if they wanted to, I'm sure they could develop a biological or chemical weapon that simply eliminates all humans.

When they were talking about sci fi robots as to who would be the greatest threat, I was saying forget ed209... forget terminator and the Iron Giant... All of these would be destroyed in a heartbeat by Unicron (Transformers 1986)... But as far as the internet is concerned... It is true... The only zombies that we are going to have to worry about is what happens during a global power outage and people won't be able to tweet on their Facebooks anymore about what they had for supper last night. We are all slaves to this thing called Internet... If you don't believe me, turn off your internet for one week and see how you do.

@cynic4459

10 жыл бұрын

Isn't it a shame that we're supposedly getting dumber, while constantly staring at the culmination of all of man's efforts. IN a way it makes us smarter. How many years did the Napoleonic Wars last? You'll find out more from this thing in front of you then running to your local library. (btw 12 or 3 years depending on who you listen too). In what way is a hive mind bad? If we can all share a large mesh of global intellegence, things would happen faster, and people who use other's intellegence to help them w/ their own ideas which in turn are used for better ideas, HItler was based off of Napoleon, Napoleon off of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar off of Alex the Great. Stephen Hawking off of Einstein off of Newton. How could technology become smarter than us if we're using it to make us smarter? It would be mathematically impossible for it to become smarter than us. With this, ideas travel faster, knowldege is traaveled faster, things happen faster. Sure technology contains it, but it also moves it. Just because mail men at one point in time contained a lot of the world's knowledge, they didn't conquer the world. Did they?

@SuperNerdQueen

6 жыл бұрын

Do you want to part of the Borg? This is how we get Borg!

@sldkvd

6 жыл бұрын

bull. i and a whole bunch of other people went over year some even years without phones, internet, gaming devices. only thing we had was tv thats it. yeah it sucked bc duh no contact but its upsurd to call it unbearable or even unsurvivabe to live without internet.

The best part is the awkward music in the background when he broke the whole Internet thing down for daniel

Almost 3 years later,and still my favorite AH.

EDI WHY?!

people with aspergers are not stupid

@MrNicLove1

10 жыл бұрын

Ya, You got GIRL! or.. guy?

@eirinikiki8886

10 жыл бұрын

i don't know anyone with aspergers I just know about the syndrome.

@MrNicLove1

10 жыл бұрын

You know me!?

@eirinikiki8886

10 жыл бұрын

 you have aspergers ?

@MrNicLove1

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, but please don't put my name on top of it!

When he threw the phone, I burst out laughing. I love these videos.

Great vid

5:24 Really Cracked? What is up with you guys and the jokes about Aspergers?

@sarahshah1249

6 жыл бұрын

Beth Star as in the internet turns us into socially-inept apathetic idiots, he was using Asperger's-y as an adjective, separate from 'cruel' and 'idiot'.

I await the singularity, in any of it's possibilities, from pacifistic and benevolent to genocidal AI.

@mattboehlke7058

8 жыл бұрын

Any cold, calculating intelligence (robot, alien, etc) would naturally try to cull us to save the planet and it's other resources (I am assuming they would look at us the same way, as a resource).

@danemr6808

8 жыл бұрын

+Matt Boehlke why? what benefit does culling all humanity grant the robots?

@Tank_KR

8 жыл бұрын

+Danemr Reschke more resources for them

@danemr6808

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle Replogle what resources would those be? humans don't consume most things that computers need.

@zotaninoron3548

8 жыл бұрын

Equally it might realize what a waste of time and resources all that conflict is. It might choose butter rather than guns.

Does anyone else think that Dans phone going off at the end and him pitching it across the diner is literally the funniest moment of this show?

Loving this series.

There's something wrong with having Aspergers?

@Renovartio

10 жыл бұрын

I'm not gonna start an argument. If you can't understand what I was asking then that's on you. Hopefully you'll understand how to feel empathy and will gain the maturity to understand why you are wrong in the future.

@Renovartio

10 жыл бұрын

I have Aspergers and I don't appreciate you jabbing us

@WondrousLanternProductions

10 жыл бұрын

Mcsticken But to people who have it, myself, may have another opinion which is something we have to accept. You have your opinion, we'll have ours. You will never think the way we think because you don't have it. Also, I don't know why everyone immediately jumps to it only being a social disorder, but it's not just a social disorder. Aspergers Syndrome may effect behavior, hobbies and interests. Also, the reason why we will never view it as a disorder or disadvantage is because whatever we are interested in and put our minds towards, we become masters of that interest.

@WildWestSamurai

10 жыл бұрын

Mcsticken You’re really doing a disservice to people with Aspergers - like myself - by saying the condition is inherently bad. You may as well say being short is inherently bad. Does it have its downsides? Absolutely. It is a huge social handicap, but in a supportive and non-bullying environment, it is possible to more capably manage that part. After some home schooling in my middle-school years, where I wasn’t constantly being picked on like before, I not only received a formal education but a social one. By the time I went back to school in the ninth grade, while I wasn’t as adept at socializing as my peers, I was much better at it than before because I had been taught and gradually learned to manage my anti-social tendencies. At the same time, Aspergers contains so many astounding possibilities for what we are intellectually and cognitively capable of. When we have an interest in something, we will become obsessed with learning every last fact and aspect about that thing until we’ve exhausted all there is to know about it, if there even are limitations to what can be learned. It could be anything from biology to physics to paleontology to the history of coins to the civil rights movement and anti-racist history (which is my niche). In other words, individuals with Aspergers are huge contributors to our current state of technological innovations and our contemporary breadth of knowledge.

@WondrousLanternProductions

10 жыл бұрын

Equoise It seems to me that you have no understanding of the situation for people born with Aspergers Syndrome. Just like people with Aspergers Syndrome will never understand it the other way either. Technically, no one can know everything about anyone. That is just a fact of life. But to assume that all people born with the syndrome would rather not have it is a total over generalization and should be rethought. You see, I was born with Aspergers Syndrome and to be quite honest, I would not change anything about myself. I work, study, talk, eat, sleep and live like almost everyone else. It should not be the one quality of mine that people look at. In my own views, I'm not saying this for all people with the syndrome, I believe that everyone has strengths and weaknesses but we should not focus on them. That's a negative waste of time. Equoise, listen, you are generalizing and stating opinions as if they are fact. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. I'm sorry I had to bring it up twice but it seemed like I should for the sake of this discussion.

I have Aspergers and I have an IQ of 132 and I find it extremely offensive to say that I or anyone else who has it is stupid.

It’s only been 11 years and Soren is already proven right. The algorithms predicting and feeding everyone what they want before they have to ask… The AI systems teaching themselves to become more efficient and rely less and less on humans… The rise of AI art, videos and even entire channels on sites like KZread entirely made by and run by AI… posting fully AI generated content. The AI singularity is getting scary close!

Is it sad that Soren got me sorta scared of the Internet? When will our computers get their own minds and start rebelling? I CAN'T DEAL WITH THE PRESSURE OF WAITING, MAN. HELP.

@omaraftab7131

8 жыл бұрын

I know he got me nearly shittin myself (Not literally)

@Drace90

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Grabowski Who says it's not already happening. (Did I hear someone's mind blow, there?) Think about how much we depend on the internet. A world in which the Internet won and rules over us would be shockingly similar to the world we live in right now.

@Andrew.Grabowski

8 жыл бұрын

Drace90 Yes, you heard someone's mind blow but it wasn't mine considering that I recently become aware that I am totally technology-relient, socially more than any other way. On the bright side, it keeps us informed fairly easily, but it makes me wonder if the war against technology could get worse for our sake. It's only a matter of time until some idiot creates a machine that has it's own brain like frankenstein or some other more recent si-fi movie characters. Well, it was nice knowing you, world.

"Aspergers-y, cruel jerks." Gee, thanks, Cracked. Just flip off the Aspies, 'cause that's real fucking classy of you. :/ Glad this isn't part of your repertoire these days.

I love O'Brian and Bowie... "Come on man, don't make me do this."

The fact that it opens with Robot Parade makes it great.

hahahahahahahahahahaha domo arigato part had me rolling when dan threw the his phone

By far the funniest after hours I have seen so far... Perhaps the scariest as well?

6:38 good throw daniel

I love when her eyes widen when she realizes something amazing XD

3:14 Still one of my favorite After Hours moments.

Great talk and the end had me lmfao.

Wow! This episode got DEEP!

The "They Might Be Giants" at the beginning was great!

I love how the company that built the robot spider is only three years away from being established. 3:38

"The best minds of our generation are gonna spend their entire lives thinking of ways to make [the Internet] smarter and more self-sufficient." I know I'm years late to this but our phones use predictive text and also listen to us to suggest products for us to buy. There are unknown depths of bytes devoted to predicting human behavior based on the Internet.

I would LOVE to see a breakdown of how these are filmed.

See, these kind of quasi-serious discussions are quite educational in a way. Its the different perspectives and information jammed into a debate that gets my jimmies...rustled. :3

Haha I love when Dan throws his phone.