Or whatever you want to call what we do here, "Recognizing those guys and recalling at least a little of their portfolio". For years, an arcane art, lighted by occasional sightings in the media stream. There may have been mistakes, but generally the people doing it were careful and sharp-eyed enough to not just throw names around, in some kind of free-for-all.
Unfortunately, our little helper is on the scene now--
This is what you get when you look up people on the Internet, now that Mr Helpful is here to inundate us with irrelevant, useless information. (Do you see "Roy Jenson" in my query? Is the first guy Roy Jenson? Should I care? I was asking about "Don Keefer Soylent Green".)
Kind of like popups, and the way Windows File Explorer keeps crowding the screen with what you don't need to know-- "This file was created on Jan 14, 2023 at 10:22 GMT." Great, thanks. You're so helpful, Windows. And you keep changing it back after I try to stop it. I guess you just think you know better than me. Idiot.
I have no idea why they're trying to bury us with crap. I do know, computer programs are carefully written to do specific things, and if they're throwing all this junk at us, it's because some human thought it'd be a good idea.
Remember the clock in Windows 8? If your cursor strayed to the right lower corner, a huge clock would pop up with the time. Never mind that you could, you know, look at the time display that's already there, if you're curious. Like those popups in the task bar, now-- I know it's there, I'm not using it, why do I have to know about it when I'm doing something else? Microsoft seems to think I do, but why? Do they go around at Microsoft, sticking their hands in each other's faces? I'm trying to work, here.
And now this nonsense. Their idiot child apparently thinks "Roy Jenson" is what you call certain character actors on Star Trek. And there's no grown-ups around to correct it. A search to verify an obscure fact returns multiple lies, offered up without prompting. AI is a compulsive, prolific liar. Anyone who trusts it for information is a mark and a fool. Unfortunately, it's going to be how we do things now.
Unsupervised AI is a whole string of disasters waiting to happen. (Anyone for Motor-Oil Coffee Cake?) And since the entire point is to replace the human-- supervisor, what supervisor? This is what we get now. That unteachable moron is jumping into all kinds of discussions with its useless and irrelevant lies. And because it's science and a computer and the Future, we'll just ignore the part about not knowing if it's true or false, even to ourselves.
