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| Saint Jerome and the Angel, by Simon Vouet |
My wife went to the White Sox game Wednesday. Which caused a twinge of envy, both for her belonging to an office that socializes together, and because the Sox were playing the Guardians, the Cleveland team.
It was rainy day. And first thing in the morning, I was concerned that the 1:10 game would be rained out. So I plugged what I thought was a very simple, very direct question into Google: "Is today's white sox game cancelled?" I didn't think it would actually be cancelled so early in the morning, but it was supposed to rain all day, and I was curious to reach some site that would keep me posted. This is what AI served up:
I know this is my self-flattering bias at work. AI seems to be working just fine, helping students undercut the value of their educations, and allowing office grinds to be fired en masse, replaced by puffs of electrons up in the Cloud. And yes, I will probably still be savoring examples of AI incompetence up to the moment the robot guards herd me into the camp. But before people are going to pay money for this shit, it has to at least work, right? Forget amazing, or essential, or impressive, or even useful. This is bush league stuff.
Sometimes AI is spot on and sometimes I wonder if a bumbling idiot actually answered my inquiry. Agreed, it has to AT LEAST work!
ReplyDeleteThe same thing happened to me. I’m pretty sure it is a plot by the Trump administration because the Pope is a Sox fan.
ReplyDeleteNext time, challenge the AI when it hallucinates an answer - the response is often entertaining.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the consistent hallucinations that AI legal searches have made, causing sanctions for even some very famous well known & apparently respected law firms & that a few weeks ago a judge threw out an entire case because both sides used faulty AI that created case citations that never existed, I'm not surprised at the useless answer you got about the Sox game!
ReplyDeleteThere a couple of web sites I've commented on that have rejected the most innocent comments, because the terrible AI misread them somehow & thought they meant something else, which for the life of me I couldn't figure out what?