Re: Is this where we are going with AI?

From	Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Is this where we are going with AI?
Date	2026-05-14 08:52 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2026-05-13, Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
> All the big companies have said they???ll be putting ads into their AIs. This
> is how they manifest.
>

But, but ... these weren't ads (*) - they appeared to be informed advice! 
Usually ad's are identified as ad's.


(*) OT is there a name for an abreviation of an abreviation? Does 
anyone use advertisement?

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Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 18:26 +0000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-12 20:49 +0200
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-13 00:07 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-13 02:28 +0200
        Re: Is this where we are going with AI? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-13 02:58 +0000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-12 18:56 +0000
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 19:19 +0000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-12 20:10 +0100
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 19:17 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-12 20:32 +0100
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-12 21:52 +0200
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-13 08:12 +1000
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-13 09:48 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-13 12:18 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-14 08:52 +1000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2026-05-13 20:48 +0100
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-13 21:59 +0200
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-13 21:46 +0000
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-14 08:52 +0000

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