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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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[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Hello from Iowa. You want more of this?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 hours 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.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Indifferent Ambivalence

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] Gorge@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Iffy algorithms

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

Information Apocalypse?

[–] Slippery_Snake874@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 hours ago

Ignorant Anti-intellectualists?

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Inaccessible Accomodations?

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 hours 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 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hope no one sees your notification at work.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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 10 hours ago

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

[–] techwooded@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 9 hours ago

Intelligential Artificence

Intelligent Artifacts?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Impulsive Andorians?

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Intelligence Artiticialle

[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 3 points 9 hours 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 7 hours ago

Very good point, well done on solving the puzzle!