AI fails

[briantrumpet]

Not as good as the Spitfire poster fails, but why do all the excretions look just the same, and all have mistakes? See the random extra 'INN', and the failed T in L in LIGHTER. I'm 99% sure the windows are wrong too (this is one of my locals).

 

[briantrumpet]

I will get bored with these friggin AI posters, but "nous somment"? Really?? Quite surprised that they've sorted out the difference between helicopters and the Canadairs.

(Context: there is a mahooosive forest fire ongoing at the mo, the only comfort for me being it's heading south well away from me at the moment....)

 

[briantrumpet]

OK, to give AI its due, if this identification is correct, it's an impressive explanation, as that does seem to be exactly what's happening outside my kitchen window right now.

 

[briantrumpet]

A professor at Brown University suspected that many of his students had been cheating on a take-home midterm exam. So he made them sit the end of term in person.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ivy-league-cheating-scandal-no-one-wants-to-talk-about

 

[Ian H]

Private Eye

 

[Pblakeney]

In other news from across the pond on AI...
(...and most likely coming here eventually too).

• Electricity blackouts could begin as early as next year as the U.S. power grid struggles to keep pace with surging demand from AI data centers, according to Exelon CEO Calvin Butler. Butler warned, in an interview with the Financial Times, that power shortages in the Northeast and Midwest could force utilities to cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers during periods of extreme demand, noting the grid narrowly avoided widespread outages during last winter’s coldest days. Grid operator PJM is already projecting significant power supply deficits over the next decade, while U.S. electricity demand is expected to jump nearly 40% by 2035. Butler argued that without a rapid expansion of power generation and grid infrastructure, reliability risks will continue to grow.
• Electricity costs are also set to rise as utilities seek billions of dollars to expand and modernize the grid to support AI-driven demand. Residential electricity prices have already climbed nationwide over the past two years, with some states—including New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania—seeing double-digit increases. Butler said higher utility bills are unavoidable because companies must invest in new transmission lines, aging infrastructure, and additional power capacity to meet growing demand. While politicians have pushed back against rate hikes and accused utilities of profiteering, Butler argued delaying increases would only result in even higher costs later.
• The growing battle over who pays for the AI boom is becoming a major political and economic flashpoint. Butler said technology companies underestimated public resistance to the massive electricity demands of new data centers, leaving utilities to shoulder much of the criticism over rising power bills. He also argued current regulations discourage construction of new power plants because independent generators lack sufficient incentives to make long-term investments. Without policy changes to accelerate new generation and infrastructure spending, Butler warned lawmakers may not recognize the severity of the looming electricity crisis until widespread shortages and blackouts become a reality.

 

[briantrumpet]

Every word of this. From The Atlantic.

 

[briantrumpet]

 

[Ian H]

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Alan Turing, eat your heart out!

 

[PurplePenguin]

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I'm ready for an intermediate clue.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm ready for an intermediate clue.

I'm neither sure what the clue nor the answer should be. 'Geneva' (singular) can't be the answer to 'European cities', but I can't make a word out of "keen these", although it does have an S in it. 'Avenge' would be the obvious word to anagramise, but that wouldn't drop into where "keen these" is anway.

 

[briantrumpet]

No idea if it's an AI fail or not for not realising that the composer of Star Wars is not, in fact, President of the Fed.

 

[Beebo]

Have any of you watched these AI videos of bands meeting their younger selves.

The one fact that almost everyone knows about Def Leppard is that their drummer only has one arm.

But AI isn’t aware of that small detail.


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/wiQORtySdZ8?si=zjbzqOA1ob-IVfTI

 

[briantrumpet]

The ratio on this one is something to behold.

https://bsky.app/profile/holdenthorp.bsky.social/post/3mqub3tg3ws2w

Not least pointing out to the "Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University" that ChatGPT isn't a search engine.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is so bleedin' obvious, but it seems that citations are the canary in the coalmine, and using AI to reference endless lists of supposedly relevant sources (rather than texts that the author has read, considered and quoted, some of which have been hallucinated by AI) is revelatory about the state of academic research and writing.