So in 1983 a movie predicts that turning over important decisions to AI is a bad idea. (Lots of others too, remember Skynet, and HAL? What was that South African film with the police robots?)
Now in 2024, AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread. My complaint isn’t so much that AI could destroy the world (although it could). Or that it can write passable code or generate fake photos and put humans out of work (which it can and does). Everybody talks about (and throws money at) applications like AI search, which I find incredibly annoying. I don’t want AI “answers”, I want search results. What is the cloud computing equivalent of “mansplaining”? Hey, robot, give me the links and let me decide on the answer. I find Microsoft’s CoPilot just as annoying as its predecessor Clippy. Bing Search has become useless IMHO. Google isn’t quite as bad, but I still don’t want the AI to tell me the answer, I want search results. Maybe I’m not looking for an answer, I just forgot the URL for Chuck’s website, that is supposedly the main reason people use Google, to get a link to a website. I feel like these tools are nowhere near as advanced as people claim, more like grocery store self checkouts nagging “place your item in the bagging area” or “help is on the way”. Or the ATM that says “we’re having a problem” with no explanation what kind of problem or how to resolve it. What movies like War Games highlight is that AI can certainly do these things, but it may do them poorly, with terrible consequences. And no accountability (looking at you, full self driving mode). From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Rex McGuire Sent: Monday, September 2, 2024 11:19 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] War Games WOPR - War Operation Planned Response If I remember correctly. Shall we play a game? On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com <mailto:part15...@gmail.com> > wrote: I remember the name of the computer: WOPR. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com <mailto:khoh...@kwom.com> > wrote: Some here must remember that movie, right? Can you believe it’s from 41 years ago? I was reminded of it when I saw this comic recently. Oh, and discussing guest actors on OMITB the name Matthew Broderick came up and then Ferris Bueller and then War Games. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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