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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

UI is user interface, I think. Def. not dead for me.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

AI is definitely useful.

No worse than asking Wikipedia maybe.

I notice Google gives an AI response first, when it used to be Wikipedia.

One plus with AI will be the taking down a peg or two of doctors and lawyers and other*experts*.

That's also the big plus of the COVID that experts have lost their status.

Just don't want to outsource our thinking.

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Richard Seager's avatar

You have to be careful of AI. It makes things up a lot. For example right now it is giving me imaginary court cases to help support me to find relevant cases for previous precedent. That precedent is useless if AI just made it up to keep me happy. I should add that it helped me a lot a few months ago getting rid of an extortionate debt that I should never have taken on but for more complicated issues I'm not sure how helpful it is.

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Stegiel's avatar

Yes. A.I. is programmed. It is biased. Deceptive. Not inerrant as Oracle or clerk.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Well I would not trust it with my life but I was only asking it how to get rid of blue stains on a sixty years old hand basin and I am impressed with it saying that it's probably from copper pipes and baking soda might help.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I have to keep checking the court cases that it refers to. 90%+ are made up. I note that some of these made up cases have been presented at court in the UK.

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Richard Seager's avatar

It likes you to be happy. So it makes court cases up. It can then be quite a hurdle before it resets to an actual court case as it just pulls more details out of its a.....

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Richard Seager's avatar

It might be surprising how much AI is around us though. Such as here on Substack.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

No, not a fan of 15 minute cities .

In case you were asking.

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Richard Seager's avatar

As long as they're not gulags the idea of having everything within 15 minutes is not a bad one rather than big box or shopping centres every 40 mins. The problem is in the implementation and the dystopians with ideas of locking everyone in. I note that Europe is starting to lock its own citizens out for telling the wrong side of the Israel genocide on Gaza.

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Stegiel's avatar

I am an urban guy so I am in 15 minute walk of everything and I cd change medical providers and even have major medical three blocks away. No car needed.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Would be on a virtual leash.

I like to visit different neighbourhoods.

Convenience is the bait.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I like to be able to get out and about as well. Trying to talk my wife into coming to Berlin with me at the moment....

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