But what will they use to associate gorillas not wearing bling to racism? Would it be gorillas or chimps in human settings? And how do they tell an episode of Bewitched where Darrin is turned into a chimp, or an old Clint Eastwood movie, or Magilla Gorilla, (or Planet of the Apes) from racism?
One of my favourite examples of a double entendre that may whoosh some people, is discussing getting old. “They say the mind is the second thing to go…” People with a dirty mind chuckle. The naive say “What’s the first?” and the harmless SFW funny answer is “I don’t remember”.
The question is whether to AI can be trained to the level of making that association without creating phantom results out of nothing. There’s a skit on the Frantics album Boot to the Head:
(I can’t embed the link, but it’s on Youtube as The Frantics - Boot to the Head - 14. Make Up Dirty Words )
“You’re reading the newspaper. I guess you’'re enjoying all the dirty words…”
“There are no dirty words in the Times.”
“Look at that headline ‘Rain predicted for some areas’! That’s a dirty word.”
“No it’s not!”
“It is if you say it right… Areas. I touched my areas. It rained, and now I have soggy areas…”
When AI can do stand-up comedy, the human race is finished.
Back in the 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears and people at risk. So the Park Service started installing armored garbage cans that were tricky to open—you had to swing a latch, align two bits of handle, that sort of thing. But it turns out it’s actually quite tricky to get the design of these cans just right. Make it too complex and people can’t get them open to put away their garbage in the first place. Said one park ranger, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
To be fair to the humans, the bears get endless chances to figure it out while many of the tourists will be encountering these contraptions for the first time.
But the garbage only needs to go in; neither tourists nor bears need to be able to get it out again. Why didn’t they just design the bins to have a one way chute? Either make it so long no bear can reach the trash, or the kind where you pull out a rotating drawer, put in the rubbish, and when you close it, it falls into the receptacle.
It’s been a while since I’ve been to Yosemite, but I’ve seen a few that were designed like old-school mailboxes, basically the second version you described. Most seem to be a fairly regular box with a latched lid, where the handle is recessed behind a slot that’s too narrow for bear fingers. And also too dark to make sure it isn’t full of centipedes.
The story is probably apocryphal anyway. Yosemite did have bear issues but I doubt it was an actual challenge; they just had to make an effort. Well, the story is still funny.
I’ll also point out that many people dumping trash would want to operate the latch/handle gizmo with just one hand, holding their load in the other. While being all squicked out at holding an overflowing bag of trash. And squicked out about touching part of a trash can another human might have touched without disinfecting it first.
In addition to being dumber than the av-er-age bear, the av-er-age human is far, far, more uselessly fussy.