AI fails

[briantrumpet]

Oops.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

 

[briantrumpet]

Google's CEO saying that the reason there's intense backlash to AI is because "humans aren't evolved enough to process that much change."

Au contraire, mon ami, I'd suggest that the genius of the human brain is that we have seen right through it.

 

[Pblakeney]

Google's CEO saying that the reason there's intense backlash to AI is because "humans aren't evolved enough to process that much change."

Au contraire, mon ami, I'd suggest that the genius of the human brain is that we have seen right through it.

The people who will gain from AI are those selling it, and employers.
Everyone else will lose in the long run.

 

[Psamathe]

The people who will gain from AI are those selling it, and employers.
Everyone else will lose in the long run.

As you say, it seems all about more power, more money & more wealth to those who have already shown complete lack of concern for society and the impacts of what they are doing (damage to society, climate, services, environment, etc.).

And then they complain when society says "Thanks but no thanks".

 

[Psamathe]

More AI madness.

‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
UK companies are performing “yoga-level” stretches to describe themselves as AI specialists in an attempt to capitalise on the buzz around the technology, public relations firms have said.

Weary communications executives tasked with securing media coverage for brands have complained that bosses in low-tech industries or running businesses that use automation but not generative AI, are increasingly demanding they are pitched to journalists as artificial intelligence companies.
...
Last month, the US shoe company AllBirds “pivoted” to to acquiring AI graphics processing units, while genetics companies have hyped AI-powered blood tests. In inboxes this month, there have been press releases about AI-powered basketball hoops, and AI-powered lasers that – somehow – protect women from predators on crowded underground platforms.

It's almost become a meaningless term.

 

[briantrumpet]

More AI madness.

It's almost become a meaningless term.

I think the major AI proponents have been so hypnotised by their product they've lost some of the critical reasoning and cynicism that is central to actual intelligence, so some of them genuinely think that all sceptics must be stupid to some degree, rather than reflecting and wondering if the sceptics might have a point.

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha, this is a glorious fail.

 

[Pblakeney]

Haha, this is a glorious fail.

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"I guessed". Not that intelligent then.

 

[Psamathe]

Haha, this is a glorious fail.

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All demonstrating that LLM AIs are not particularly useful as even if they happen to provide accurate info, you can't trust it and have to double.trebble check everything by which time you might as well have gone "traditional".

Trust them and one thing you can be sure of is you will be caught out, will be misinformed and will be getting it wrong, you just won't know when nor how badly.

 

[briantrumpet]

All demonstrating that LLM AIs are not particularly useful as even if they happen to provide accurate info, you can't trust it and have to double.trebble check everything by which time you might as well have gone "traditional".

Trust them and one thing you can be sure of is you will be caught out, will be misinformed and will be getting it wrong, you just won't know when nor how badly.

I guess that's why I always try to remember to admit here if I've used Gemini or Copilot... "according to Gemini"... ought to be the standard disclaimer if you've been lazy and not double checked.

 

[Ian H]

"I inferred" implies a completely amoral intelligence. A human would have been embarrassed at being found out*.

" Except Boris Johnson, of course.

 

[briantrumpet]

"I inferred" implies a completely amoral intelligence. A human would have been embarrassed at being found out*.

" Except Boris Johnson, of course.

It's the kind of thing a found-out student would try to pull on a professor in a seminar for which the student hadn't done any work at all and was trying to blag it (oh, B. Johnson again).

 

[briantrumpet]

"I guessed". Not that intelligent then.

'Guesses' and 'inferences' can be extremely intelligent. IIRC, Richard Feynman started a lot of stuff with 'hunches', which might end up with a Nobel Prize. But he is deeply underplaying the amount of understanding that helped him have those hunches, whereas GPT-5 is just 🐂💩ing

 

[PurplePenguin]

I wrote an article which was published on an area of expertise. It was meant to be a vaguely witty, but at the same time helpful. Imagine a title like "The best way to grow a rainbow unicorn"

Now if I ask AI how to grow a rainbow unicorn it quotes my words and my analogies back to me.

 

[briantrumpet]

I wrote an article which was published on an area of expertise. It was meant to be a vaguely witty, but at the same time helpful. Imagine a title like "The best way to grow a rainbow unicorn"

Now if I ask AI how to grow a rainbow unicorn it quotes my words and my analogies back to me.

How does it feel to have had your data scraped? Have you got some sort of cream you can apply to reduce the irritation?