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If someone can figure out what IA stands for, and the meaning that reflects, than we are one step closer to staving off the utter annihilation of our species from data centers hoovering up more and more electricity until climate change accelerates catastrophically.

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[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

How about:

Informed Answers

For two reasons: combat all the AI slop/hallucinations coming out these days, and also address the problem of people becoming too lazy to learn. Remember when people went to libraries and read books to find answers? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Hello from Iowa. You want more of this?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This was my immediate solution as well. Unfortunately, IA is what got us into this mess

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

We had an IA building at my high school. It stood for Industrial Arts.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Information Apocalypse?

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Ignorant Anti-intellectualists?

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Inaccessible Accomodations?

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, that one was funny to see out of context in my inbox in lemmy notifications lol

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hope no one sees your notification at work.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I work for an agency that is an acronym, so this is kind of the B&B of what I do, they understand AFAIK shrugs.

[–] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

That would counteract the intelligence part of AI…but there would be no victors in that battle.

[–] techwooded@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

hmmm, there is something here, because this suggests that AI is Idiocy, Metaphorical... Meta Intelligence.....

[–] Gorge@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Iffy algorithms

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago

Indiscriminate Actions

Actions designed to throw AI off and make it even less accurate. It can be nonsense words, coded phrases, or phrases that don't normally make sense.

[–] Slippery_Snake874@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Well in spanish, and I would assume a lot of other latin-based languages as well, IA does stand for artificial intelligence

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago

Intelligential Artificence

Intelligent Artifacts?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Impulsive Andorians?

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

But is IA a real thing, or just an implicit bias towards dualistic thinking? What if not everything has its opposite?

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

International Agape, I guess? Love will save the world and all that shit.

[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indians Actually? This is technically the truth. Remember when Amazon said self-checkout stores is powered by AI but it was later revealed it was just tons of indians monitoring the cameras sitting in a call center in India?

If someone can figure out what IA stands for, and the meaning that reflects, than we are one step closer to staving off the utter annihilation of our species from data centers hoovering up more and more electricity until climate change accelerates catastrophically

@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz I figured it out! I restored harmony!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Very good point, well done on solving the puzzle!

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Intelligence Artiticialle