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Man, that's some "old man yells at cloud" energy. Abe Simpson would be proud.


C'mon, you've seen this before. New tech over-hyped by its creators, with the "we'll all be doomed!" crowd yelling in the background. It'll be brain implants or cyborgs in another decade.


It happened for the internet (remember that fad?), computers, mobile phones, point-of-sale machines, TV, calculators, radio, books and probably even paper (if stone is good enough for God, it's good enough for the rest of us!).


While I don't disagree with you, like everything else AI is here to stay. So what if it's wrong, so is everything else.


Yeah it’ll make the kids stoopid, so did everything else. Especially jazz music.


But what if it stops working you say? Well, we said that about everything else as well. Imagine installing electronic cash registers and the power goes out! How will I pay? We'll all be doomed!


But what about AI slop? Well, as writer Theodore Sturgeon replied when asked if 90% of science fiction was crud, replied with "Sure, but 90% of everything is crud."


AI is just another tool. Like all tools it has its uses. I save stuff I find interesting, and on my PC a folder eventually had about 40,000 pictures in it. Of course I put them in subfolders, like clocks, boxes, etc. But I rarely renamed them, so most of them were called something like ergv45yb34tb3q4.jpg


Anyway, one day I fired up Google Gemini and set it loose on that folder. And it did a really good of identifying and renaming those images. Some were incredibly spot-on, like this:





“Alice in Wonderland Playing Card and Tea Party Silhouettes on a Purple Textured Background.jpg”


I mean yeah, that’s what it is.


It was kinda fascinating watching it work it way thru the images. Some names were funny, some were wrong, most were rather bland ("a cat cut out of wood") but better than what I had. At least now I could search for "cat" and find something.


As an aside go here: and download "Everything". It will index your PC and instantly find anything. It's very good. You can also set your own filters, eg I added one called "Vectors - ext:ai;cdr;dwg;dxf;svg" that returns files with those extensions.


I'll leave you to complain about them damn kids not learning cursive handwriting anymore (or any handwriting really), and toss in this as well:


Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
WAM via groups.io
Sent: Monday, 28 April 2025 11:48 pm
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [7x12MiniLathe] Parting Off
Stands for Any Idiot -
The tech industry has devolved into one driven by glitzy soundbites that mean
nothing, infested with a bunch of "Man Bun, Java Jockey, Pitiful Python Pirates"
whom were told by their parents that STEM was better than being an
archaeologist (or whatever line of work they really wanted to do [IF ANY]),
being led around by their nose (and promises of BMW's and sapphire martinis
at happy hour) by a clownfest of technically illiterate, greedy business monkeys.
This is getting more endemic across the tech arena in general.
Why AI Will Never Really Exist... AI = Any Idiot... That's what AI really means.
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"Generative AI, Bull$^# as a Service"
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And it's true. The amount of really bad info on the internet - like soldering to
LiPo batteries or replacing a high pressure hose fitting with a Home Depot hose
clamp - makes me think THAT's how AI will kill us off. By feeding on bad info
and stoopid people will believe it.
Add to that the "MAD COW" disease - Model autophagy disorder (see this at
Cornell - <> )
Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine
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"Why Is AI So Dumb" IEEE SPECTRUM
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Professor Matthew Jones of Princeton on C-SPAN titled "The History of AI"
where at the end he mentions the term "parroting".
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Note he also mentioned to me the "Big part of what I've been working on has
been the rather remarkable rebranding of linear algebra and ml as AI. "
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM
Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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Wall Street Asks If AI's Juice Is Worth The Squeeze Analysts and one very
prominent AI academic think the bubble is about to burst.
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<> > squeeze.html

Has the AI bubble burst? Wall Street wonders if artificial intelligence will ever
make money <>

<> > will-ai-ever-make-money/index.html

“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but
we actually banished thought.”
~~ Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
"Two percent of the people think,
Three percent of the people think they think, And ninety-five percent of the
people would rather die than think."
~~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic
building block of the universe.
I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic
building block of the universe."
~~ Frank Zappa (1940-1993)
On 4/28/2025 3:29 AM, Ellis Cory via groups.io wrote:

Hi everyone. I expect most of us have charts etc that give us all the

information we need.

In any case, I thought AI stood for – Artificial Incompetence !!!
Ellis
I know AI is all the rage, but it is not difficult to part with Artificial Intelligence.
--
Evan
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