AI fails

[AndyRM]

Haha, thanks! I feel I really should try watching the French originals, knowing that the English versions took no notice of the French scripts and just made the stories up from the visual prompts.

It's pretty much the same stoned nonsense.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Haha, thanks! I feel I really should try watching the French originals, knowing that the English versions took no notice of the French scripts and just made the stories up from the visual prompts.

This one - feature length is extremely trippy and fairly spooky in parts - no idea what the French original is like, other than I don't think it could be anything but trippy and a bit spooky. One of my mates had it as an LP and we used to listen to it in what I like to think of as a similar state to that it was conceived in.

 

[briantrumpet]

Maybe this measured professorial response should be standard for all chatbot-assisted academic writing...

 

[briantrumpet]

If only people had mapped Africa before, and published the these map things so people could use them.

America not doing much to dispel its image of being ignorant about world geography.

 

[briantrumpet]

If only people had mapped Africa before, and published the these map things so people could use them.

America not doing much to dispel its image of being ignorant about world geography.

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[C R]

Cautionary tale for lazy students. A professor in the US set an assignment for his students about the industrial revolution, including a hidden instruction not normally visible, to include a nonsense reference to Madagascar.

A large proportion of his students failed, because they fed the assignment text directly to chat gpt, and their essay had the tell tale nonsense reference. They were so lazy that they didn't even type the prompt, and then didn't proof read the output.

PZ Myers has the low down.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyn...ogy-is-killing-some-peoples-ability-to-think/

 

[briantrumpet]

Cautionary tale for lazy students. A professor in the US set an assignment for his students about the industrial revolution, including a hidden instruction not normally visible, to include a nonsense reference to Madagascar.

A large proportion of his students failed, because they fed the assignment text directly to chat gpt, and their essay had the tell tale nonsense reference. They were so lazy that they didn't even type the prompt, and then didn't proof read the output.

PZ Myers has the low down.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyn...ogy-is-killing-some-peoples-ability-to-think/

I like the thoughts in the comments likening AI to asbestos (rather than smoking or oil). That's a useful analogy, not least as it's a good discussion point about whether younger students know their history. I suppose thalidomide would be another one. That really has passed from common knowledge in younger people.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

My mother was prescribed thalidomide. Fortunately she forgot to pick the prescription up off the doctor's desk.

 

[briantrumpet]

My mother was prescribed thalidomide. Fortunately she forgot to pick the prescription up off the doctor's desk.

One of the few things I'll quickly do is if I hear a young person using the word 'flid' is to tell them its history. Without fail, they are horrified when they learn where it comes from. Thankfully rare though. It's even worse than when you realise that playful 'berk!' you've used all your life is not the offensive part of the rhyming slang. I think I was about 50 when I found out. Oops.

 

[FishFright]

One of the few things I'll quickly do is if I hear a young person using the word 'flid' is to tell them its history. Without fail, they are horrified when they learn where it comes from. Thankfully rare though. It's even worse than when you realise that playful 'berk!' you've used all your life is not the offensive part of the rhyming slang. I think I was about 50 when I found out. Oops.

I didn't know that and I'm 60!

 

[Rusty Nails]

I didn't know that and I'm 60!

I bet you didn’t get an expert to find out, but Googled it.😉

 

[Pross]

One of the few things I'll quickly do is if I hear a young person using the word 'flid' is to tell them its history. Without fail, they are horrified when they learn where it comes from. Thankfully rare though. It's even worse than when you realise that playful 'berk!' you've used all your life is not the offensive part of the rhyming slang. I think I was about 50 when I found out. Oops.

Likewise ‘mong’ and ‘spas’. I can still remember the collection box for The Spastic Society in my local supermarket as a kid, obviously that was just the correct term but the images on the box always felt a bit strange to me even then.

 

[briantrumpet]

Likewise ‘mong’ and ‘spas’. I can still remember the collection box for The Soastic Society in my local supermarket as a kid, obviously that was just the correct term but the images on the box always felt a bit strange to me even then.

I think the 'Soastic Society' is a philosophical movement, but I'd have to check on Wikipedia. (Sorry.)

There were a few charities which used to use the blunt terms (Mencap, amongst others), but 'spastic' along with the one I mentioned were two of the most hateful distortions (along with 'mong', obviously) that meant the official terminology had to move, as humans can just be horrible. I guess that blind and deaf people (or 'people with little or no vision/hearing') have to get used to the nouns/adjectives for their differences, as they are so deeply embedded in normal language and usage.

 

[Pross]

I think the 'Soastic Society' is a philosophical movement, but I'd have to check on Wikipedia. (Sorry.)

There were a few charities which used to use the blunt terms (Mencap, amongst others), but 'spastic' along with the one I mentioned were two of the most hateful distortions (along with 'mong', obviously) that meant the official terminology had to move, as humans can just be horrible. I guess that blind and deaf people (or 'people with little or no vision/hearing') have to get used to the nouns/adjectives for their differences, as they are so deeply embedded in normal language and usage.

Deaf and dumb has at least finally changed.

 

[Ian H]

Likewise ‘mong’ and ‘spas’. I can still remember the collection box for The Spastic Society in my local supermarket as a kid, obviously that was just the correct term but the images on the box always felt a bit strange to me even then.

From The Law of the Car and Every Motorist's Own Lawyer (1924)

WHO MAY OBTAIN A LICENCE.
Yet, strangely enough, though essentially a personal permit, in England, unlike many other countries, the licence implies no personal qualification.
There is no reason in law, for example, why a blind man should not obtain a licence; and there have been numerous instances of deaf and dumb people obtaining them and even of cripples.