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When it comes to mobile phones, the question of can you hear me now is never no.
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At some point, there was probably a guy named Adam who genuinely thought it was called an “Adam’s apple” because it belonged to him.
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It's sad people are confusing CGI with AI in media like they have with WIFI and the Internet.
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High heels are today’s version of foot binding.
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If eventually we said - “Ok, screw it, this 1/2 of the world is banning Ai forever, making it totally illegal, and we’ll have clean versions of every app and the other 1/2 of the world will use Ai.” I think we’d be surprised how many people would pick the 1st world.
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People self organize in elevators to maximize space.
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Everyone seems convinced the job market is a disaster when the data shows the economy is actually doing fine. This perception is pretty nice for employers as it’s a lot easier to justify suppressing wages when everyone feels lucky to have a job.
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The internet goes mad at the idea of a women's version of Ghostbusters or Oceans 11. But will instantly do 'Boy Math' and 'Boy Dinner Stories' versions for themselves
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A normal ginger is called a ginger. A hot ginger is called a redhead.
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The way old vinyl records were made, by someone singing and the input needle cutting the record. When played back you are essentially hearing a real life echo from that person.
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An apartment is a hotel room that you're responsible for cleaning.
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Confidently incorrect people are truly actual idiots.
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It is possible for a fluent English speaker with perfect vision to never learn the Latin alphabet and only learn Braille instead.
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If you pee long enough, the toilet will flush itself.
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Bohemian Rhapsody and Schindlers List take place in the same Cinematic Universe.
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Thanks to colonoscopies, the average number of cameras up one's butt is between zero and one.
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Americans are relatively easier to scam because the culture encourages casual small talk between strangers, which gives hostile actors an easier way to get their “foot in the door”.
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If you're flying in an airplane and saving data to "the cloud" the data is going through actual clouds down to the ground.
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A decade or two ago we were just worried about kids no longer being able to read or write in cursive. Now we're worried about them being able to read or write at all.
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People are wrong all the time, but we had never seen a computer be confidently wrong prior to LLMs.
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Via screens, traffic-signals, displays on appliances, and dashboards in vehicles, many of us spend the majority of our lives being led around by artificial lights. The will-o'-the-wisp has evolved.
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In a zombie apocalypse, most survivors would be in cities, not forests.
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Does everyone's voice in their head (thoughts) sound the same as actual voice? Do Americans for example, think in the same accent as they speak?
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Putting a fitted sheet on a bed can make a grown adult lose an argument with fabric.
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While it makes for good scenery, the trend of taking maternity photos in a field of tall grasses seems like a uniquely bad time to risk a tick bite.
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The funniest thing about the Dunning-Kruger effect is that lots of people overestimate their ability to understand it correctly.
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Music conductors probably get the closest to how it must feel being a wizard casting a magnificent spell.
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Mouse and rat claws look big compared to their toes. They'd be huge scaled up to humanoid size.
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If Ai were really really as good as people think, people would be using it to get incredibly rich on sports betting. Creating an Ai that is right only 60% of the time would make you millions.
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