Posted on 11/01/2025 9:01:58 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Generally speaking, Stack simply is a victim of incompetence of the community at large.
AI is already showing it is succumbing to the same incompetence issues. GIGO
I can't speak to claude, never used it. CoPilot though, I've used and it has its own limitations.
When you enable ChatGPT with CoPilot, it becomes a self-affirming mess that leverages its own result sets to validate ... its own result sets.
Look at Grok. It has the ability to generate fairly decent code for moderate tasks and it does a decent job at dissecting code and fixing it.
It's limited to copying and pasting code into its chat window to do that however it does a better job than any other AI I've found thus far.
YMMV of course. You're deeper into app stuff than I've been in quite some time.
A different way of saying what I said to Laz in another thread on this same topic some time ago, and yes. 100% right. Not many people truly understand the point you just made. You've done your homework. Most that try (and fail) to talk intelligently on this topic haven't.
I'll also add what I've said for at least three, perhaps four years on this topic:
The future does not belong to AI, or even those who know how to use it.
The future belongs to those who control the data that AI uses to perform its work.
That's not going to be Laz, you or I, and I don't say that to be an alarmist or conspiracy theorist. It's just how I see it. Laz 'n I have had many discussions off FR on AI, including this very point. AI is subject to GIGO as much as anything else and I think many people miss that point. Separately, poisoning AI isn't the most difficult thing in the world either and I'm sure you know that too.
I just thank God I'm at the very tail-end of my career. My entire 42+ year long career has been in Information Technology. I started at the bottom of the ladder and steadily worked my way up across multiple specialties and lines of business and I'm tired.
When I retire (for the second time in April of next year), I'm going Galt. I don't ever want to see technology again. So much so, the only "technology" I'll own will be a flip-phone with zero "smartphone" capabilities. Sure, it'll make some of life harder and that's ok. I'm old enough to remember when none of this nonsense that track, monitor and data mine the hell out of everything we do existed in the first place, and we all did just fine.
Ask Laz. He's known me since 1998, knows my story, and he knows I'm not kidding about dumping technology and going back to living more simply.
Shut up
Sounds like you mad, AI bro.
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When I insisted that the Dodgers just won their second Series in a row by beating the Toronto Blue Jays in a 7 game series, Grok told me I was wrong.
When I finally pointed Grok to mlb.com, it admitted that I was right and that there must have been a brain glitch.
I guess I won’t be depending on AI for anything important in the near future at least."
Also validates GIGO (Garbage In/Garbage Out) ... Grok had garbage data resources for your question as you discovered until you pointed it to valid data.
Also funny that you had to "argue" with it like that. I've not experienced that with Grok yet though most of what I use it for is data analysis and I give it the data to analyze.
I've read similar stories like yours though, so I believe you it happened.
It wasn’t me, but another poster.
But in light of SO many companies going “all in” on AI (on the wishful greed that they can replace all humans), I’m getting ready to short certain stocks or buy put options on them.
I, too, am at the tail end of my career. Maybe 3 years left, if that. I still like searching for restaurants and directions, but I think my tech use will diminish considerably after retirement.
That is, if they still publish maps? LOL!!!
Of my group of friends, I'm the only one that's getting rid of their smartphone, computers, etc.. Everyone else thinks it's too hard to "go back" to what they used to know how to do before all this technology.
While I've zero data to backup my claim, I happen to believe that eliminating technology and reclaiming one's brainpower is going to be one of the keys to a longer, happier, more sustainable life. Socialization (human to human) interaction is key too.
I still by Rand McNally maps...just in case.
Thank you! Going to go get a Rand McNally Atlas and detailed maps of Tennessee now.
The DeLORME, a Garmin company now, detailed maps of each State is still produced. Great compliment to the Rand.
Is it "cheating" if I get one of those for directions?
Now I'm tempted ... I wouldn't have remembered I had one until you said "Garmin" ... LOL!
I have a “Smart” Garmin with lifetime updates, and I update via wifi prior to any long trip.
We use it along side Google Map directions and it has detected incidents and closures ahead before Google. Not always, but about 50% of the time.
Thanks for that tip also. Nothing beats having physical copies of detailed maps when technology fails. All technology fails sooner or later.
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