Just when you thought it was safe for Nickelback! Enter Facebook scion Mark Zuckerberg, who just shredded the band in a recent AI demonstration.
Onlookers to this bloodsport against Nickelback often wonder: why Nickelback? Why so many brutal jabs for a mere group of rockers from Canada?
This actually been the subject of intense academic debate, including one groundbreaking study that sourced the ridicule to one moment in history.
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We’ll let the historians and academics debate these important theories. But here in the present, Mark Zuckerberg may have landed the most punishing blow of 2016. In a just-released video showcasing the Facebook’s new artificial intelligence solution, Jarvis, a leading question on Nickelback is met with an ‘intelligent’ response.
Enjoy (especially around 1:12 or so…)
Brutality.
But Jarvis, voiced by Morgan Freeman, actually likes bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He even recommends specific songs from the group. Ask Jarvis for a Nickelback tune, however, and the response shifts entirely. “I’m sorry, Mark, I’m afraid I can’t do that. There are no good Nickelback songs,” Jarvis jabs in the video.
Meanwhile, the band itself is battling a rumor that they’re playing Donald Trump’s upcoming Inauguration (they aren’t). And just recently, cops in a small Canadian town threatened to torture drunk drivers with Nickelback songs. The punishment went absolutely viral, forcing the sheriff to issue an apology for ‘bullying’.
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All part of one of the biggest cultural punching bags of our generation. Back to the artificial intelligence solution, Zuckerberg will be battling a number of rivals, though voice-activated AI seems to be in its early stages. Currently, solutions like Alexa are hit-and-miss, and Siri is notorious for botching requests. That could start to change in the coming years, especially with Facebook intensifying the competition.
“I’m sorry, Mark, I’m afraid I can’t do that. There are no good Nickelback songs”
Can they even do that?
I’m really, really not a Nickelback fan, but this is not a review based on somebody’s personal opinion. Though tongue-in-cheek, this pretends to state a fact based on AI.
I mean, Nickelback might as well claim that recent scientific research proves that Zuckerberg is an idiot.
Also, how is this not the exact kind of hate-speech and bullying Zuckerberg allegedly wants to stop on FB?
Just let all that go for a second. Sip a cold one, take a puff… and enjoy the presentation.
Nah, nothing to enjoy there.
Agreed – since when was Mark Zuckerberg cool? He’s not. He has money, but he is DEFINITELY NOT cool.
There is a grainy picture of a younger, freer Mark Z, eyes closed, presumably feeling the music at a sf rave in he early aughts. That makes him cool right? j/k
Presumably, haha!
Can’t stand Nickelback, but I’d rather listen to them than the Chili Peppers 10 times out of 10.
…unless it’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers singing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” on Carpool Karaoke. Because that happened.
I remember one performance Nickelback did at the grammy’s sometime in the last 15 years, and got a standing ovation, and to me, it was a relief to hear a real band at the time. They did have at least a couple decent songs, even if some others weren’t great.
Zuckerberg is a foul member, along with Larry Page, of a group of monopolist tech fascists ruining the lives of creative people. He should be in court answering charges for copyright theft.
“Zuckerberg is a foul member, along with Larry Page, of a group of monopolist tech fascists ruining the lives of creative people. He should be in court answering charges for copyright theft.”
Spot on, sir!
This is so awesome. I can’t wait for AI like that to make its way into my home.