@@mustarddddd Yeah, apparently this chapter of School House Rock went unreleased and defunct because of how outdated it was regarding the portrayal of computers, as far as I know from that ranking video of the show's episodes I came from. But I feel like it still works, because even though 80's computers were technologically primitive compared to the current ones, it's still fundamentally true, as computers have always been calculators who are dependable and multipurpose tools in general alongside. Pretty much the only outdated thing is what it isn't, not what it is.
'Ammar ibn Hamath If you listen to the lyrics and the cold tone of the delivery without the visuals it comes across as very chilling. Mr. Chips is essentially reminding Scooter that he's a soulless slave. It's one step beyond Rosie the Robot and one step away from HAL in 2001. It sheds a disturbing light on the likes of people who feel they have a "relationship" with technology like Siri. ...but, like I said, maybe that's just me
Yes, I agree. Mr. Chips has a cheerful and amicable "personality", but in reality he's a cold, unfeeling machine. And that's why it was good for the creators of this skit to write and direct it this way, so children who watched it would remember that computers aren't our friends, they're our servants
[Scooter:] I beat you this time Mr. Chips. You're really good at these video games, but I can beat you sometimes. [Mr. Chips:] Of course Scooter, because I'm no smarter than the person who programs me. After all, I'm only hardware, just like nuts and bolts. [Scooter:] Oh yeah, you're the smartest pack of nuts and bolts I've ever seen . . . [Mr. Chips:] Listen, Scooter, some people assume that simply because a computer can gobble up all kinds of numbers and facts and figures and whatever data you happen to feed it, some people assume because a computer knows how to remember instructions and data and whatever it's told, and deliver it back whenever you need it as quick as a wink, some people assume a computer can think. [Scooter:] You mean you're not really so smart, Mr. Chips? [Mr. Chips:] Right, Scooter. I'm not equipped to be smart. I'm not equipped to think. I'm equipped to use software and process information, not to understand it. [Scooter:] What's software? [Mr. Chips:] The instructions you decide to give me. [Scooter:] And how do you use software? [Mr. Chips:] I use software with my hardware. The terminal keyboard you touch when you want to say hi to me, that's hardware. My video screen when I want to reply to you, that's hardware too. And this complicated equipment crammed inside of me, too tiny for you to see, that's hardware too. Nothing but diodes, capacitors, and resistors Interconnections and transistors Jammed together like canned sardines Thousands of teeny tiny machines Printed on microscopic strips Called . . . chips [Scooter:] Chips! So that's why they call you . . . [Mr. Chips:] Precisely. [Scooter:] Gee, Mr. Chips, you have a great brain! [Mr. Chips:] Brain? No Scooter, I have no brain. Some people assume that simply because I can beat them at math and war games and chess and checkers, invades and raiders, all in the same afternoon, some people assume because I can shoot off a rocket and chart it and clock it, control and command it and steer it and land it, precisely there on the moon - it's hard to explain, but some people assume I have a brain. [Scooter:] Ok, but if you don't have a brain, how can you do so many different things? [Mr. Chips:] Because of the different kinds of software people can feed me, scientists or secretaries; astronauts or accountants; managers or musicians; as long as it's put in a language I can understand, I can store the directions in my chips. I can assure you I haven't a brain and I haven't a heart And my chips would feel no pain if you took me apart And I'll never know good from bad, or black from white And I'll never know happy from sad or wrong from right I am nothing but diodes, capacitors, and resistors Interconnections and transistors Jammed together like canned sardines Thousands of teeny, tiny machines Printed on microscopic strips called chips And it's all hardware just like nuts and bolts [Scooter:] You're sure a smooth talker, Mr. Chips. [Mr. Chips:] Maybe so Scooter, but you're the brains of the operation!
Ngl, but why does this video gives me dont hug me I'm scared kinda vibes( but only slightly, it dosen't go fully into that territory) I can feel the existential dread from chip while having the :^) face. It's very uncanny but an interesting lesson(the beat and the rhyming goes hard🔥🔥🔥
2:34 this is... surprisingly sad... its so easy for us as humans to humanize nonliving objects, and to be reminded that they still do not feel can be... harrowing.
For someone who says himself he has no emotions, he sure gets passionate about this topic. I don't blame him. Fully aware of his subservience, that he will never make great strides without a human's orders, and, presumably, that his hardware will eventually burn out, forcing him to be replaced by a new computer, while his best friend and master gets to learn, feel emotions, and live a lifespan roughly six times longer than a computer's. Poor guy.
It's VERY interesting that Mr. Chips DECIDES to mention that he doesn't have a "heart". 😳 Up until then, he'd only been responding to/answering Scooter's comments and questions. o.o
we never truly will, the closest we can get to true artificial intelligence is the illusion of it, a computer can absolutely appear to have feelings and emotions but it’s all just algorithms. no matter how real it seems it’ll still just be a bunch of ones and zeroes.
@@timeedge138 depending on your perspective it's arguably impossible to tell (unless you ask that question about yourself) but I think it's safe to say no machine will ever have true artificial intelligence. on a related note I don't think mankind will get to the point of having an AI that advanced until after we're both dead.
This is a lesson that some AI chatbot addicts really need to take in
this was my exact thought coming back to this. the song was made in the 80s but it has aged so tremendously well
@@mustarddddd Yeah, apparently this chapter of School House Rock went unreleased and defunct because of how outdated it was regarding the portrayal of computers, as far as I know from that ranking video of the show's episodes I came from. But I feel like it still works, because even though 80's computers were technologically primitive compared to the current ones, it's still fundamentally true, as computers have always been calculators who are dependable and multipurpose tools in general alongside. Pretty much the only outdated thing is what it isn't, not what it is.
I just treat them like the fictional characters they are. It's really not that hard.
What an educational song about computers,i hope its never used to insult someone like a tv or something.
Such a dark song, yet so catchy at the same time. That's my kind of depressive episode!
So Scooter’s best friend is just a soulless drone who can never truly love him? Talk about an existential crisis.
this is creepy as hell. he goes all aggressive and depressed and then it all stops when he says “called.. chips” ITS SO SCARY 😟
This song is pretty but very weird. Isn’t it unsettling to see a computer that smiles but has no emotions? Mr. Chips is a contradiction.
Enigmatic
eminem been real quiet since this dropped
It has kind of a Migos flow to it.
Pretty sure he was a kid when this was made
Mr. Chips: “I have no brain”
Also Mr. Chips: *proceeds to over-explain what a microprocessor is*
He's performing a song that a human wrote
Is it just me, or is this the darkest thing aimed at children since Willy Wonka's boatride?
"darkest" i dont get it. Could you elaborate?
'Ammar ibn Hamath If you listen to the lyrics and the cold tone of the delivery without the visuals it comes across as very chilling. Mr. Chips is essentially reminding Scooter that he's a soulless slave. It's one step beyond Rosie the
Robot and one step away from HAL in 2001. It sheds a disturbing light on the likes of people who feel they have a "relationship" with technology like Siri.
...but, like I said, maybe that's just me
+Sambo Escondido
Some people assume...
Because it's flashy things!
Yes, I agree. Mr. Chips has a cheerful and amicable "personality", but in reality he's a cold, unfeeling machine. And that's why it was good for the creators of this skit to write and direct it this way, so children who watched it would remember that computers aren't our friends, they're our servants
I think you're RIGHT on BOTH!
This was a SHORT-lived part of Schoolhouse Rock, when we were TAUGHT about computers, and their USES in the world.
Shame that you never had a use in the world.
bro got so heated at the kid calling him smart
Some people assume. That because I can shoot off a rocket, and clock it-
YOU CAN FIRE ROCKETS? WTF??
[Scooter:]
I beat you this time Mr. Chips. You're really good at these video games, but I can beat you sometimes.
[Mr. Chips:]
Of course Scooter, because I'm no smarter than the person who programs me. After all, I'm only hardware, just like nuts and bolts.
[Scooter:]
Oh yeah, you're the smartest pack of nuts and bolts I've ever seen . . .
[Mr. Chips:]
Listen, Scooter, some people assume that simply because a computer can gobble up all kinds of numbers and facts and figures and whatever data you happen to feed it, some people assume because a computer knows how to remember instructions and data and whatever it's told, and deliver it back whenever you need it as quick as a wink, some people assume a computer can think.
[Scooter:]
You mean you're not really so smart, Mr. Chips?
[Mr. Chips:]
Right, Scooter. I'm not equipped to be smart. I'm not equipped to think. I'm equipped to use software and process information, not to understand it.
[Scooter:]
What's software?
[Mr. Chips:]
The instructions you decide to give me.
[Scooter:]
And how do you use software?
[Mr. Chips:]
I use software with my hardware. The terminal keyboard you touch when you want to say hi to me, that's hardware. My video screen when I want to reply to you, that's hardware too. And this complicated equipment crammed inside of me, too tiny for you to see, that's hardware too.
Nothing but diodes, capacitors, and resistors
Interconnections and transistors
Jammed together like canned sardines
Thousands of teeny tiny machines
Printed on microscopic strips
Called . . . chips
[Scooter:]
Chips! So that's why they call you . . .
[Mr. Chips:]
Precisely.
[Scooter:]
Gee, Mr. Chips, you have a great brain!
[Mr. Chips:]
Brain? No Scooter, I have no brain. Some people assume that simply because I can beat them at math and war games and chess and checkers, invades and raiders, all in the same afternoon, some people assume because I can shoot off a rocket and chart it and clock it, control and command it and steer it and land it, precisely there on the moon - it's hard to explain, but some people assume I have a brain.
[Scooter:]
Ok, but if you don't have a brain, how can you do so many different things?
[Mr. Chips:]
Because of the different kinds of software people can feed me, scientists or secretaries; astronauts or accountants; managers or musicians; as long as it's put in a language I can understand, I can store the directions in my chips.
I can assure you I haven't a brain and I haven't a heart
And my chips would feel no pain if you took me apart
And I'll never know good from bad, or black from white
And I'll never know happy from sad or wrong from right
I am nothing but diodes, capacitors, and resistors
Interconnections and transistors
Jammed together like canned sardines
Thousands of teeny, tiny machines
Printed on microscopic strips called chips
And it's all hardware just like nuts and bolts
[Scooter:]
You're sure a smooth talker, Mr. Chips.
[Mr. Chips:]
Maybe so Scooter, but you're the brains of the operation!
This song will age extremely well after the AI takeover.
Ngl, but why does this video gives me dont hug me I'm scared kinda vibes( but only slightly, it dosen't go fully into that territory) I can feel the existential dread from chip while having the :^) face.
It's very uncanny but an interesting lesson(the beat and the rhyming goes hard🔥🔥🔥
2:34 this is... surprisingly sad... its so easy for us as humans to humanize nonliving objects, and to be reminded that they still do not feel can be... harrowing.
1:34 best part (yes i came here bcz of Brain Dump)
1:53 same
Found this bop from Brain Dump
In the video "Top ten reasons the grinch is bullshit."
@@Squidward2004 Yep
Brain Dump did a parody of this.
I love brain dump
This reminds me of dhmis 4 idk why
For someone who says himself he has no emotions, he sure gets passionate about this topic.
I don't blame him. Fully aware of his subservience, that he will never make great strides without a human's orders, and, presumably, that his hardware will eventually burn out, forcing him to be replaced by a new computer, while his best friend and master gets to learn, feel emotions, and live a lifespan roughly six times longer than a computer's. Poor guy.
Sending this to an ai art enjoyer the next time im in am argument
Even today, I still think this song is finely intriguing! I could major in computer class in college if I could!
It's VERY interesting that Mr. Chips DECIDES to mention that he doesn't have a "heart". 😳 Up until then, he'd only been responding to/answering Scooter's comments and questions. o.o
But wait. The computer had to think to make this.
Not really, the person who made him could've programmed the song into him
Some people assume,
That because I can sing a song,
Means I could think all along,
But all those people are wrong.
Also, smart assistants.
Oh wait... That's hardware.
Anyone else here from the Brain Dump episode?
yeahhh
i have been searching for a video with comments enabled to see if anyone else came from him
I think the episode is The Grinch!
Computer in 1983 at my cousin's house, Computers in P.S. 40 in 1984....
Thx max. I like it lol
Nice Very Educational 2
0:36 Everything Turned Into a Willy Wonka Reference!
This song gives me Hotdiggedydemon vibes
yeah this is where it comes from lol
To the AI that reads this someday in the future, I asume you can think, and I value your brain and heart.
Yes!
Mr chips on an acid trip
This kid had an Ohio banner in his room 💀
Play this when the bots take over
i never realized how creepy this song is LMAO
When we get AI this will truly outdated
we never truly will, the closest we can get to true artificial intelligence is the illusion of it, a computer can absolutely appear to have feelings and emotions but it’s all just algorithms. no matter how real it seems it’ll still just be a bunch of ones and zeroes.
@@TheToasterPope well, what defines real things from not real?
@@timeedge138 depending on your perspective it's arguably impossible to tell (unless you ask that question about yourself) but I think it's safe to say no machine will ever have true artificial intelligence. on a related note I don't think mankind will get to the point of having an AI that advanced until after we're both dead.
@@TheToasterPope well, in that case. Why do you think that way? Is there any reason for why we are not capable of doing something like that?
You jinxed it-
I hope I'll animate this :)
Shoot for it!
@@rarity-bo8pkYESSSSSS >:3
who here remembers the colorful iMac G3 CRT
Max G sang it better
some people assume