"AI" is it not the centralization of the internet?

We don’t know circumstances of that 18K bottles order – what if customer wanted to be charitable and help Skid Row homeless folks, that will be like what, only 3 bottles per person there? Or maybe they wanted it for a Rave party? As for the Moon, few companies are selling "deeds" to a piece of the Moon, arguing that 1967 Outer Space Treaty does not prohibit private ownership 🤷‍♂️
And that's OK.

If someone wanted to be charitable and actually buy 18k bottles, a vending machine is just NOT the place to buy 18k bottles... you gotta go to a bulk seller who actually can sell tha much at once and do your homework on who/where that might be... insisting on a vending machine for this is a sign of low intelligence.

My reference to the Moon was metaphorical - I really meant it as going above and beyond the intended transaction. Seriously, what next? Either buy a dozen bottles from the vending machine or go away. And if you can't figure that much out, not my problem. Once again, a sign of low intelligence if you stray that far beyond the original topic, and don't even understand metaphorical references and don't even understand what you're being told when you see certain information, even when it comes from the screen of an AI-equipped vending machine that sells water bottles.
 
If someone wanted to be charitable and actually buy 18k bottles, a vending machine is just NOT the place to buy 18k bottles... you gotta go to a bulk seller who actually can sell tha much at once and do your homework on who/where that might be... insisting on a vending machine for this is a sign of low intelligence.
Not trying to argue here, so please don’t get me wrong, but as I understood CShell in #43, post was about Taco Bell restaurant, not the vending machine?

Besides, there is another funny example that just happened, Stephen Burke (Gamers Nexus) bought all 128GB USB's that Micro Center had.
YT posts quote: “Thanks to Micro Center for letting us bulk buy like every single 128GB USB device they have. I haven't ever seen a pallet of USB drives, but will soon!“ /q
 
Not trying to argue here, so please don’t get me wrong, but as I understood CShell in #43, post was about Taco Bell restaurant, not the vending machine?

Besides, there is another funny example that just happened, Stephen Burke (Gamers Nexus) bought all 128GB USB's that Micro Center had.
YT posts quote: “Thanks to Micro Center for letting us bulk buy like every single 128GB USB device they have. I haven't ever seen a pallet of USB drives, but will soon!“ /q
Good point... Well, when trying to integrate AI into drive-through, I did get the impression that Taco Bell is trying to morph from restaurant into a vending machine... 😅

And there are plenty of people who try to pull ridiculous things and game the system well beyond what it was intended for in the first place. If the system lets them do it - so what. Eventually, people will find what's convenient for them.

In reaction to that Microcenter story: So? Yeah, cute. I'll just buy my USB sticks elsewhere if I can't find one where I'm shopping at the moment...
 
There is also a yakiniku vending machine.
 
There is also a yakiniku vending machine.
Holy crap, book me some tickets to Haneda, pronto! 🤤
 
YT posts quote: “Thanks to Micro Center for letting us bulk buy like every single 128GB USB device they have. I haven't ever seen a pallet of USB drives, but will soon!“ /q
Eh, as long as it's paid for I don't think the vending machine should care about quantity purchased if it's in stock :p

Yeah 100 tacos might sound odd, until it's a fun late night in a packed car with a credit card; suddenly it's a quick idea, paid on a payment method that likely won't be easy to refund later, ordered without judgement (assuming no quantity limit at checkout), to a nearby location that would probably be more than eager to bulk-organize ingredients while satisfying a fun order :p
 
I think A"I" is just the latest fad. Sadly, I think this fad will stick around because there are enough gullable people to continue falling for the same scam over and over and over. SOME of these tools have a use, many are useless, many are harmful (Recall), and this entire AI thing is overall just the latest techbro craze.
I think "I" is actually needed. The term has been around seven decades already, but unfortunately the "I" has not yet been invented.
 
AI stands for Artificial Inferiority 😂
"Artificial" means fake, feigned, and so on, so the term Artificial Intelligence is accurate. The "Inferiority", however, is real enough.

According to a recent article in The Register, OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance :-/
 
Here is one interesting thing to consider about autogenerated programs:

During the MAGA boom, the big point of speculative investment was blockchain. During a boom, money looks for additional avenues of expression, including riskier ones based on growth and potential, because all the safe bets are already flooded.

After the "zombie pandemic," the economy became bearish, and speculative investment in the software world instead turned to autogenerated programming. During downturns, money scrambles for safe places to hang on to, for savings wherever they are, for means to cut fat. What does this say?

That what the markets see in autogenerate programs is not the potential for future innovation, but the possibility to cut costs. It is meant to make redundant and replace high-paying corporate positions, as well as deploy cost-effective solutions that can be computed but that would not occur to a person.

N'est-ce pas?
 
According to a recent article in The Register, OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance
Somewhere on my user profile, I commented that I taught ChatGPT the meaning of the word "Rhinophytonecrophilia" - a word that was made up from running 4 latin words together, and requires some thinking and intelligence to realize that it amounts to this word: "Sommelier". "Rhino-" as in "nose" (Rhinoplasty is nose surgery, y'know). "Phyto-" as in "plant". Grapes are involved, and that's definitely a plant. Figuring out the rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

My point is, ChatGPT tried pretty hard to NOT admit ignorance, even after I patiently walked it through the explanation. And it's that priority that I have a problem with. If stuff has been made up because that was the best data available, I see that as understandable. But putting in an effort into NOT admitting ignorance - I just have a hard time taking that, it turns me off.
 
Yeah, I would be fine with, I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that one, rather than an incorrect answer that's going to, when I try something and it doesn't work, aggravate me.
 
I too noticed that recent LLM releases tend to stick to their (false) position and argue with me, whereas before they would often change their mind when I told them they are wrong.

Recently had a debate involving a supersonic Mig-15.
 
I too noticed that recent LLM releases tend to stick to their (false) position and argue with me, whereas before they would often change their mind when I told them they are wrong.

Recently had a debate involving a supersonic Mig-15.
I guess that is one for the books - a rank-and-file American guy arguing with an AI about a Russian fighter jet! 🤣 Esp. when both have blind spots and don't know much beyond what can be dug up on the Internet from secondhand sources. It's like trying to drive backwards without the benefit of even rearview mirrors.
 
Recently had a debate involving a supersonic Mig-15.
How do you talk to a supersonic plane? It's gone before it can hear your questions.

On LinkedIn, half my "friends" post amazingly funny stories about AI being wrong, and obnoxious about it. The other half of my "friends" claim that AI is the best thing since sliced beer and bread in bottles.
 
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