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That is an interesting conversation. I have been surprised lately when asked to compare products from Amazon or other retailers with links and descriptions... how often the models get the basics completely wrong. When confronted they typically do not acknowledge their mistakes and instead try to change the direction of the conversation.

I have never tried to use AI for that type of purpose, but all the models I have used seem to have varying degrees of accuracy when it comes to any subject and always need to be double checked at this point.

Here is how Grok replied, on this subject if anyone cares...

“the convergence of AI accessibility, legal restrictions on race-based policies, and market demands for proven skills aligns on exposing inefficiencies in elite higher education hiring.​

Shared Outlook
This synergy pressures institutions to prioritize measurable competence over demographic checkboxes, benefiting students with direct, effective learning tools.​

Forward Trends
Rising AI tutoring adoption reduces reliance on variable faculty quality.

Enrollment shifts favor value-driven programs, sidelining high-cost underperformers.

Policy evolutions under current leadership reinforce merit-focused reforms.​”

AI while often wholly unsuitable for the customer service role that many businesses try to use it for... poses a clear and present danger to our current institutions of upper learning. When it comes to learning marketable skills going forward AI is vastly superior at a fraction of the price of a bunch of DEI hire “professors”.

There are too many opportunities available for real learning outside of the tradition form of higher education which cost almost nothing by comparison. This comes at a time when educational institutions have saddled themselves with pushing non-productive lefty ideals with now tenured staff that was hired through DEI policies and not merit.

AI is currently being used for wholly unsuited purposes such as customer support, but the real threat is to DEI hires in education. AI based instruction is not only efficient for many forms of educational, but there is also no way for professors who were never really qualified to teach concepts which are actually useful in the workplace to compete.

There are many here who have not used AI models for any useful purposes, and they mostly have no clue how useful they can actually be. The criticism that you will receive from them typically has no connection to reality even if it is worded in a way that sounds reasonable. What can you really expect from someone who spouts off about something that they have no experience with.

My 88-year-old father was giving me a load of uninformed idiocy about AI chatbots. So, I opened Grok using Perplexity AI on his computer while he cowered in a corner across the room from me. I started asking it questions about topics that he often asks me about. It responded not just with the same answers similar to what I usually tell him, but with sources from the many websites that Grok got the answers from. After a few minutes of this he became hooked. And now he does not call me as much... is this good or bad? I don’t know, but it is fairly typical.

I mostly use Grok on Perplexity AI and I have to admit that it is fun to berate the model when it gives me back a politically correct response on global warming, green energy, or other politically charged subject. The way the model is programmed it will keep spouting the same nonsense over and over again even after you point out contradictions and berate it. But it does give one insight into the way a polite lefty should respond when confronted with factual information.

With actual leftists the responses will be full of emotional easily disproved complete nonsense, do the level of discourse is actually better with an AI Bot. So, I can understand how many people mistakenly believe that they are conversing with a sentient being. Most of the commercial chatbots are programmed to be polite, although there are some open-source models available that are meant to be edgier. And this is one of the reasons why hobbyists such as myself like to use locally hosted models.

Yeah. I can almost hear the whiny beeyotch voices: “Russia should just leave”.

We have been hearing the same refrain since the first day of the Russian “invasion”. The problem is that the entire situation and the history of how it developed is completely glossed over.

It has mostly been the result of a botched Soros and Intelligence Agency operation mostly thought up by incompetents who seemed to have never thought ahead about the repercussions. The “adviser” who was likely the primary architect was the same person who came up with secret flights shipping pallet loads of cash to Iran, Valerie Jarrett.

there is only one peaceful solution, Russia leaves I am always wonderful to see that the Pollyanna contingent is still alive and well here and still rooting for the idiocy of the last administration.

The Ukrainians have just about run out of men to send to send to be slaughtered in this now pointless proxy war with Russia. Zelensky ran on a peace platform which is why he had popular support. But his puppet masters had something different in mind. Joe (We won't do anything if its's a minor incursion) Biden and the rest of the crew such as Lindsay thought that they had a plan which would cause regime change in Russia.

“I'd prefer not to have spyware in my car”

Keep enjoying your 1979 Buick Electra.

You need to go back a little further which is why kids today have no idea about the basics of tuning an engine which doesn't have a computer-controlled engine. I don't know when the surveyance started however. By 1979 a bunch of cars already had computers controlling their engines.

https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/remanufactured/ignition-—tune-up/computer/7e8c336bad79/cardone-engine-control-module-remanufactured/a1c0/774330/v/a/3240/automotive-truck-1979-chevrolet-el-camino

Here is a list of just the Chevys that took the above computer:

El Camino Base with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
El Camino Base with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
El Camino Royal Knight with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
El Camino Royal Knight with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Base with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Base with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic Estate with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic Estate with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic Landau with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic Landau with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic Sport with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic Sport with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Classic with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Estate with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Estate with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Landau with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Landau with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Police with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Police with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Sport with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Malibu Sport with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Monte Carlo Base with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Monte Carlo Base with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Monte Carlo Landau with engine V6 - 3.8L 231ci GAS 2BBL vin 2 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle
Monte Carlo Landau with engine V6 - 3.8L 3800cc 231ci GAS 2BBL vin A type LD5 - 2 valve OHV
1979
1979

1 vehicle

I am a computer hobbyist and enjoy playing with AI models known as LLMs (large language models) and using various AI apps that do image, video and music generation, along with chat.

AS an example here is my humorous cat music page which uses AI generated images and music just for fun.

https://teddycat.fun/

At the end of page 2 there are also a picture of me with my Skypup ultralight airplane along with a couple pictures that I took that day from it. This was decades ago before drones as we know them these days were available.

The amount of nonsensical hype about AI is somewhere above 95% when it comes to anything related to it.

The tall fir tree in front of our house (about 3 feet in diameter at the base) kept losing big branches which is common around here during windstorms. But this was happening when it wasn’t windy. Then I noticed a large pile of bear poop near the trunk of the tree and figured out that a large visitor was breaking off the branches.

The best comment on the article at FOX news,

“National Park Rangers advise park hikers to wear little bells on their clothes so they make noise when hiking. The bell noise allows bears to hear them coming from a distance.

Visitors should also carry a pepper spray can just in case a bear is encountered. Spraying the pepper into the air will irritate the bear’s sensitive nose and it will run away.

It is also a good idea to keep an eye out for fresh bear scat so you have an idea if bears are in the area. People should be able to recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat.

Black bear droppings are smaller and often contain berries, leaves, and possibly bits of fur. Grizzly bear droppings tend to contain small bells and smell of pepper.”

from ohiocons
8 hours ago

This will be the most consequential result of the Biden administration’s $Multi-Billion dollar foreign policy debacle which resulted in hostilities in Ukraine. It never would have happened if President Trump had not been cheated in the 2020 election.

Elon needs to switch to a lower dosage of whatever psychotropic drug he is taking.

Without Babs and HW the Bush family is adrift.

Would be interesting to know what chunk is from pc gamers.

Approximately 91% of Nvidia’s products are sold to businesses, primarily through data center, professional visualization, automotive, and OEM sales. Microsoft and Amazon alone purchase over 40% of Nvidia’s output. A large percentage of Microsoft's and Amazon's business is providing the servers which are the backbone of the internet. The demand for new AI services has caused their need for Nvidia products a great deal.

The remaining 9% go to people running LLMs locally (artificial intelligence apps) and gamers. Gamers outnumber people using home-based AI apps but this balance has been shifting rapidly. So, gamers are now competing with people who are setting up computers with powerful GPUs for running AI models locally for various purposes such as generating and editing video. This along with demand from businesses has not only caused shortages in GPUs but in memory as well. The price of memory has doubled in the last few months.

All I know it is the Russian Federal police.
I got it right, it is the Federal Security Bureau in Russia.

Good job! Sorry that I didn’t look it up.

When you put this all in perspective, what you have is this... For better or for worse, for around a thousand years Russia and Ukraine were tied together, by proximity, culture and language that started from the same roots, and people who are basically indistinguishable from each other by anyone outside of the region. Then for 10 years Soros organizations and Western Intelligence through hook or crook managed to pry the corrupt political leadership out of Russia’s control. This could and should have been a good thing. But largely because of ham handed foreign policy idiocy controlled by incompetent leadership this positive development ended up in a war which has devastated the country. None of this would have happened if the left hadn’t stolen the 2020 election from President Trump.

Glad to see you are still around. What does FSB stand for?

I have noticed a growing lack of interest from our Zeeper battalion recently. This type of thing means that the Ruskies have done what they do best... outlasting the attention span of fat Western couch potatoes. I assume that they sense that propping up a corrupt puppet regime to accomplish the goals of the Biden regime (money laundering taxpayer funds back to Democrat leadership and their family members) is no longer a worthwhile diversion compared to watching Matlock reruns.

Common you lazy clowns get off your butts and start calling people Puty Lovers, etc... again. The rest of us are already missing your entertaining antics and predictions of Russia’s demise.

Yes, he said it at TP USA, of all places.

Give me a break!!! Either he misspoke or the audio was doctored. Anyone who believes this is proof of anything is not the sharpest tool in the shed.