GEEZ! Didn't mean to open up a can of worms.

OK, back to jokes: I think you'll laugh with this one:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/939283748741010

Not since I don't have a Facebook account.

 

Not since I don't have a Facebook account.

I know how to embed YouTube video's but I don't know how to embed facebook. Sorry. I think you would have gotten a laugh out of it.

 

I know how to embed YouTube video's but I don't know how to embed facebook. Sorry. I think you would have gotten a laugh out of it.

Very possibly.

I know that people post links to Facebook content that is viewable, but I don't know what the magic incantations are to make that happen. Probably has to do with visibility permissions on the content.

 

 

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This is like one of those puzzles where you are tasked with finding all of the hidden things. Is that the point?

Here's what pops out to me on first blush:
1) Soldering on a solderless breadboard.
2) Meter reading 3.3 V when there is on a single connection to the board and no apparent way to get a complete circuit (not to mention no indication of a means of powering the board).
3) The many Escher-like wires.
4) Possibly the many unconnected components on the board, but if it's a work in progress....
5) The schematic on the clipboard has no relation to the circuit on the breadboard.
6) The schematic mixes schematic symbols and component pictures (but that's become pretty common, sadly).


As a "joke", is it primarily #1?

At least she's not holding the soldering iron by the tip like in some actual marketing material that's been put out.

 

I guess typical errors from an AI-generated image that doesn’t know better.
Also, on the part bins on the top right there is a bin labeled “LTINS”. Can’t think of any word that ends like this.

 

I guess typical errors from an AI-generated image that doesn’t know better.
Also, on the part bins on the top right there is a bin labeled “LTINS”. Can’t think of any word that ends like this.

I tried googling it ... but it still makes no sense:

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I tried googling it ... but it still makes no sense:

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I was wondering about that myself. Also, while I have connected a function generator to a scope to play with random lissajous shapes, I generally don't just leave the function generator connected.

 

I was wondering about that myself. Also, while I have connected a function generator to a scope to play with random lissajous shapes, I generally don't just leave the function generator connected.

Leave it to people like us to analyze and dismantle a joke piece by piece instead of simply enjoying the thing ... LOL ...

 

I generally don't just leave the function generator connected...

...to a scope with banana plugs.

 

I immediately looked for - and didn't find - her holding the iron improperly and so noticed the solder. Chuckled and stopped there. Upon further inspection, there are all the goofy things you listed, including the mysterious parts bin label.

 

I guess typical errors from an AI-generated image that doesn’t know better.
Also, on the part bins on the top right there is a bin labeled “LTINS”. Can’t think of any word that ends like this.

I was trying to figure out the same things and couldn't, but didn't think that was worth mentioning. But it is curious, isn't it.

I just asked ChatGPT and it couldn't come up with anything beyond "BOLTINS", which apparently is an obscure and obsolete term meaning a bundle of straw.

ChatGPT kept asking for more information about what it was, so I finally told it that it was on an AI-generated image, at which point it responded:

Ah—that context changes things completely.

If it's on an AI-generated image, then the most likely explanation is simply that it isn't a real word.

Had to chuckle at that. The obvious generalization is that this AI just told me that if an AI generated it, the most likely explanation is simply that it isn't true.

 

The obvious generalization is that this AI just told me that if an AI generated it, the most likely explanation is simply that it isn't true.

I'm flabbernoxed.

 

Had to chuckle at that. The obvious generalization is that this AI just told me that if an AI generated it, the most likely explanation is simply that it isn't true.

The joke is on us.

 

And we're worried AI is going to take over the world and destroy us?

 

And we're worried AI is going to take over the world and destroy us?

Either that, or make us better.

The optimist in me chooses the latter.

 

I just hope it makes everyone better.

 

I just hope it makes everyone better.

Not possible: every new technology has capabilities that can be used for evil as well as good.

That makes the bad guys badder. But, the good guys can use the same tech to try to keep up.

 

Not possible: every new technology has capabilities that can be used for evil as well as good.

That makes the bad guys badder. But, the good guys can use the same tech to try to keep up.

Let me clarify, I am perfectly aware that not everyone benefits by the same degree when a new technology arrives. Think of Watt's textile machine. In the beginning, the textile industry went through much suffering. But after a relatively short time absolutely everyone benefited because of it.

That's more or less the scenario that I'm hoping for.

 

...went through much suffering.

No, there will be suffering. Maybe lots.

Change isn't easy.

At the end, I hope (expect) the result will be net positive.