Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 20:32:17 +0100 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <82se7wpgou.fsf@example.com> References: <82wlx8php8.fsf@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="138353"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zeqk38CzaYAtA9bz9AXBQfD50sE= sha1:gmxWn0ZiOMAuSk57A2dxnRjTtNo= X-User-ID: eJwNw4kRACEIBLCW5FnQcnCF/ku4y0xgIcH0QDgGc2rIRGnCdmnz/NVe6hbWvXhP2j179aJOfS1FEeQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:28568 Jim Jackson writes: > On 2026-05-12, Richmond wrote: >> Jim Jackson writes: >> >>> A friend of mine had a problem with external speakers/mic for his laptop >>> - he does talks to groups. So he asked his new friend "copilot". Guess >>> what - co-pilot suggested he needed a gizmo, helpfully saying it was >>> available from Amazon. Off he goes and purchases this, and ... he's >>> still having problems. Ah says his friend "copilot", "now you mention it >>> what you need is actually this gizmo for, guess where, Amazon! >>> And seemingly there are still problems, but he has it working-sort-of. >>> >>> So are big companies paying to get adverts in AIs? Or is it just >>> regurgitating the stuff it's scraped from Amazon? >>> >>> And my friend has learnt nothing new from co-pilot. He has no real >>> further understanding about the problem he had. Co-pilot had not >>> educated him. But he does have some new buzz words that he picked up >>> from the conversation. >>> >>> It could be, of course that he'd have got no further by entering into a >>> conversation with humans on a bulletin board, or indeed here on usenet. >>> I have no way of knowing. >>> >>> I reckon to use one of these tools well, you already need to be somewhat >>> of an expert in the area of discussion - so you can spot the >>> hallucinations and where it is off the mark. >> >> It sounds like a new version of an old problem. He should get a second >> opinion. Maybe ask Claude. ;) > > Indeed. The future is AI speaketh unto AI! > > I just thought, why do the AI's not have female names? Lumo is gender neutral apparently. (I asked Gemini).