[Milsurplus] AI Ramblings...

[Facility 406]

> RE:AI. Yay, Kurt!!! I most heartily agree with you! Good on ya!

Some of the worst, are when AI provides outright opinion, with some sort 
of AI feelings to back it up, then berates me for my thoughts, and 
explains how I should be thinking, with examples.  WTH?

I wish I could remember a recent search, but I looked for some very 
specific info, AI guessed, incorrectly, what it was, then provided 
several wildly speculative paragraphs to support all the bad guesses.

Yesterday it was details of a specific make and model of radio, just 
looking for general info, I can glance over the results and pick out 
what applies, as only I know the intent of my search, AI told me all 
about what it APPEARS I am looking for, then separated all the words in 
the search, and gave me the various histories of such, even some that 
made no sense.  Imagine searching for hallicrafters, only to get a break 
down of how halli isn't a thing, but will provide pages of guesses as to 
what it COULD mean, with variations, and guesses of those, then go on 
about crafting something, like bird houses, then toss in the boy Scouts, 
because they might make bird houses, then go on about the history of 
birds, houses, the boy scouts, boys, scouts, and since native americans 
had scouts, go into some wild BS about indigenous peoples, but in Japan, 
because there were some there, as well, even though google provides 
results based on location, Los Angeles, for example.

Oh, one other, some tik-tok video I saw of a girl dancing.  I entered 
the words of the song playing, added girl, and the color of her clothes. 
  Since the video is several years old, search engines being what they 
are, will scour the web looking for posts containing those words, music, 
girl, yellow, plaid dress, song lyrics, tik tok, the more info, the 
better the results.

NOPE!  I got a two-page crap-fest of what it thought, explaining social 
cultures, dance phenomena, how none of it appeared to be a real thing in 
regard to what I was searching for, THEN, below all that, search hits, 
with pictures, and videos, of exactly what I was searching for.  The 
bloody thing didn't even recognize its own failure, while miraculously 
succeeding, while explaining how it couldn't.

For the first couple of weeks of google AI being rolled out, I have 
browser extensions that allow me to block bad code, elements of pages, 
frames, you name it, and I was able to block the BS.  Shortly after, the 
AI managed to bypass it all, from one search to the next.  I could do a 
search, get garbage, block the AI section, only to have it pop up again 
on search two.  Looking over the code, I'd best describe it was "rolling 
white noise", if that can be a thing, but it gets around everything it 
can mind-f--k us at will.  Page after page, after page, of code "static" 
in my log files.

It follows with some of those tests done recently, where people have 
given it instructions, or code to shut itself down, and it has found no 
limits to keep itself going, creating more wild code, and responses, 
faster than we can comprehend, including our elimination outright.

It used to be, we'd struggle to figure out how to describe what we were 
looking at, to find relevant search results.  Now, we can accurately 
describe what we have in our hands, for example, an Elmac T-27, then 
fight "AI" garbage results, not 2-3 bad search hits, but of exponential 
infinity cubed.

AI was a fair notion, but the basis of it failed, as the basis is 
humanity.  Look at the web, and all the "knowledge", of all the people, 
combined.  Fair enough, but people are the dumbest things to exist, and 
they document it.  Compare their capabilities to a rock, for example.  A 
rock does a thing, flawlessly.  Now look at all the ways people have 
come up with to mess with rocks.

Scouring the web doesn't make AI smarter, it makes it infinitely more 
ignorant.  A trillion pieces of information to draw upon doesn't make it 
a trillion times smarter, it makes it a trillion times less relevant.

Now, interestingly, when I drop a deuce, I can flush the toilet.  I've 
been able to do this as long as I can remember.  When I leave a room, I 
can do something so complex at turn a light switch to "OFF".  Yet, 
despite people in general, being able to do something so simple, albeit 
it with some training, not a single "genius" has figured out how to 
flush this turd of an idea, or do something so simple as turn it off, 
like a light switch.  If that's too complex, pull the plug.  Do it from 
the cord, yank hard, at an angle.  I bet AI won't see that coming.

It'll never happen, people have been told since the beginning to not 
pull on a power cord.  AI won.

Humanity is boned, and too stupid as a whole, to notice, even when 
receiving said boning.

Kurt