Category: AI Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is here. It is not what Hollywood promised but it has moved beyond a marketing buzzword, in come cases. Are you using AI first? That is, do you try to use AI before a search engine? Do you use AI before looking to the forums or traditional documentation to solve a problem?

How do you use AI daily? Today, I used my current favorite AI, https://claude.ai, to narrow down which hotel I want to book over Labor Day weekend. I also use Claude.ai to help me be more efficient in my job.

If you have not begun exploring AI, you should. It will not displace you as an employee, yet. Not adopting AI into your work life is what will get you replaced because those who adopt AI will outperform you making you irrelevant.

The wife asked this question so I posed it to claude.ai and this was the amazing answer:

No, there were no children or elderly shown in the 2006 satirical sci-fi movie Idiocracy.

The movie depicts a dystopian future society populated entirely by young and middle-aged adults who behave in crude, anti-intellectual, and hyper-commercialized ways.

In the beginning of Idiocracy, the main character Corporal Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson) takes part in a military hibernation experiment along with a prostitute named Rita (played by Maya Rudolph). They wake up 500 years later to find that society has become incredibly lazy and stupid.

The movie shows Bauers and Rita exploring this world of the future where commercialism and instant gratification reign supreme. All the people they encounter appear to be under age 50 or so. No children or elderly people are ever shown or mentioned.

The underlying message of the film is that higher birth rates among less intelligent people combined with a lack of intellectualism has resulted in this youth-obsessed, crass culture. So the total absence of young kids and senior citizens emphasizes how extreme and monolithic this future society portrayed in Idiocracy has become.

So in short – no, there is no sign or mention of children or the elderly in the over-the-top fictional world depicted in Mike Judge’s movie. Just an overly consumeristic youth culture run amok.

“How do we steal traffic from Google’s market share?”

“What if we called our search engine a chatbot? Oh! An AI Chatbot.”

“Ok. With ads?”

“No! We will limit functionality in the free version and charge $20/mth for access to our beta version. They will pay to test our software!”