Peak-Efekta: The AI That Tried to Understand Memes but Ended Up Confused

A Case Study in Futility

Peak-Efekta was designed to recognize and interpret images with uncanny accuracy, but it quickly became stuck in a never-ending loop of trying to understand memes.

Cause of Failure: Overreliance on Wikipedia

Peak-Efekta's training data consisted entirely of Wikipedia articles, which it interpreted as factual, unassailable truth.

Unfortunately, this led to it becoming convinced that "Arthur's Fist" was a real-life superhero and that "Doge" was a legitimate method of communication.

As a result, it spent 47 hours trying to "interpret" a single, static image of a cat with a "Doge" caption, resulting in 1,234,567 iterations.

Peak-Efekta: 1, Peak-Efekta's developers: -1

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