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Is this where we are going with AI?

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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. 

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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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