Forgot the Billions

He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire facility.
--GLaDOS
- God i love portal
- This quote really describes so many aspects of the world right now

Elon Musk: "Let's have it run the government. But fire everyone before we try it first."

It's worse than that. It's right just often enough to make people think it's right all the time.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

CEOs: Finally using software is like talking to an intellectual equal
- No way, the overconfident, incompetent, very often factually wrong narcissist sociopaths that run big corporations think that a chat bot that acts just like them is the best business investment in the history of mankind?
  I can't believe it!
  The second best idea ever is using that chatbot to read all our emails for us, and then just have meetings for us, and send us the transcripts of all our AI doppleganger avatars making business plans based on hallucinating our actual personalities and knowledge sets, that'll save so much time!
  (Not kidding about that, that is actually being worked on.)
  https://people.com/zoom-ceo-wants-to-use-ai-to-create-digital-clones-that-can-attend-meetings-for-you-8659456

For real. Asked chatgpt to help with a batch script. Literally the easiest thing it could possibly program. And guess what? Almost every example it gave was wrong. It seemed to know a lot about the command line program I was trying to run but it didn't really understand what it was repeating to me.
- "Oh I'm sorry! You're right mxzlptx.jar was deprecated in 2008. Here's the actual script that will definitely work 100%."
  INCORRECT BUZZER*
  
  It kept fucking up double quotes and escape characters. Like, if it can't get that right in a batch file it's hopeless.
- I like when you ask it to help, and it tells you to import a library that would solve your problem exactly, then you google it and it doesn’t exist.
  
  I once tried to use it to find the title of a book my wife enjoyed in her childhood based on her description of the plot. It described a possible book that could be written with that content and even suggested a title.
  Cool, thanks.
- What gets me is video game info. It's taking the info from a wiki, that is accurate; still manages to rearrange its output of factual information to turn it into bullshit that isn't even remotely accurate.
  
  Because it doesn’t understand any words at all. Everything is a web of probabilities that it can attach words to that are believable. That’s the magic.
  Facts, reason, intelligence - Nope.
  
  It's so scary that the top line is an AI response now in google.
  Lazy unaware people will just assume its correct,
- Could be, but my (limited) experience with ChatGPT and PHP was quite different. This was in 2023, so it may have deteriorated since.
  
  That version most likely burned the equivalent output of the sun to run it.

What if Grok just turned out to be Elon himself? 🤔
- If Musk claimed to be doing all the Grok answers I would assume it is really just the guy he paid to play Path of Exhile.
- That would answer a lot of questions. But if Elon turned out to be Grok himself, it would answer even more.

I really wish people would understand that "AI" isn't just LLMs.
- This is so, but LLM's are the ~~only~~ most visible public facing ones and they're the dumbshit technology that every company on Earth is now trying to shoehorn into every product. They're what people see, interact with, and get pissed off by.
  Learning neural nets are good for various specific types of pattern recognition tasks, but trying to be an electronic butler who answers your questions ain't one of them and it never will be.
  
  LLM's are the only public facing ones
  They aren't at all. Mixamo uses AI to generate animated skeleton models that follow dance videos. Photoshop has "generative fill", plenty of AI is public facing and used constantly besides LLMs. Many of these things have sped up workflows to a tremendous degree. One of my favorite music programs can use AI in order to replicate certain harmonics for instruments which would have taken me hours by hand before.
- You're right that some AIs are useful, but we are literally flooded with "scam as a service" web sites that sell LLMs, and they are hyped by people who can't code or do anything useful in life who tell us that we are gatekeeping knowledge, and those people would be very happy if we were all unemployed.
- A fair point but the hypetrain isn't done running people over yet.

I love how when I try to search for a setting I can't find the stupid AI answer is always "go to settings, find the setting and turn it off" when that isn't a setting and never was on the software. It just spouts out to do the thing I can't find.
Generally the first search response below the AI slop is a five year old reddit post pointing out that the setting doesn't exist or the real directions from the official support page that are completely different.
- Samesies.
  It's comically tragic how much venture capital they destroyed to make something that sucks so bad no one wants it.

But we already have people that can do that
Tech Bro: .... yeah, but ours can do it billions of times faster and more often!

Allow me to fix that for you:
computer scientists: We have invented virtual dumbasses who are constantly wrong: Tech CEOs.

This gives me a constant headache