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 20:10:27 +0100 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <82wlx8php8.fsf@example.com> References: 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:y2fbO8XYds84vl/Xinxf9CvbSsI= sha1:Lea3PjKdVBliHZD9ODTS6dB4hkk= X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLJTypnVCGfwm7Sy+rx6isyM2FljFb0ycJE1yMJ1wqrzvaPs2pQIM74g8dKBEb Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:28565 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. ;)