Ai gone mad!
 

One clip on Instagram, which has been viewed over 21.5 million times, shows a man ordering "a large Mountain Dew" and the AI voice continually replying "and what will you drink with that?"

LOL!

https://x.com/DeadlessHick/status/1961591665447374983

As you aptly said in another post, we are doomed

Tennessee whiskey! The Mountain Dew is just the mixer.

somebody crashed the system by asking for 18,000 cups of water. .

LOL!

more stories to come for sure. .

Thankfully, humans never make mistakes or misunderstand a question.

Clearly the AI just wants to make sure you stay hydrated.

Make America Healthy Again.

AI
Artificial Ignoramus


Called a specialty doc's office to cancel and reschedule. Could not get a real person on the phone.
AI gave me no choice of reschedule date and time. Took probably 20 minutes of rephrasing, repeating, ad nauseum.

Voting with my feet: I plan to take my business elsewhere. (not the only lousy thing there).

I need to change my login to "Doomer Boomer", no offense to the always well typed original "Boomer"

AI will be the "Animal Farm" of information. . .

AGI, Artificial Generalized Intelligence, trains on general information, which comes from humans on places like FaceSpace, Birdspeak, etc, and since its generalized, it will keep getting dumber and dumber as the young and ignorant try to learn from it. .

Experts will no longer add to it, as experts will get lost in inter human negative competition, aka mud slinging, and experts will add to expert knowledge trained AGI, which will become the for pay version of AGI, aka AEI, or ASI.

Unguarded, somewhere it will be the downfall for governments, and the increase in violence as labor markets crumble to commodity status, serfdom, and localized people revolt

The worries of AI taking over the workforce are exaggerated,
People would rather talk to a real person than deal with an unsympathetic AI.
Look at how many people will stand in line at a grocery checkout rather than use self-checkout.

AI is impressive at times, but, as an example, if I want to buy "Blue Floral Polo Shirt for Men" on any website, you will mostly get anything but Blue, Polo Shirt, Floral and for Men.

A 2 years-old knows what is "Blue" and "Shirt" and "Men". A 4 years old knows what is "Polo Shirt". But Amazon, Walmart, eBay, etc have no clue!!! Most of the results are not blue, polo shirts, for men or floral.

At least with Amazon, they own a major AI initiative. Put it for simple good use!!!

Called Walgreens a couple days back to order refills. Got to the "pharmacy" and a nice woman answered. Sweet voice, and so totally natural. Asked me if that was a "T" or "P" in my name. Better than talking to a human. Really. No accent or slurred speech etc. When picking up the RX, I asked the clerk if she knew about the AI voice. No idea but she was gonna call to check it out.

Way the world is going. I'm ++++ about it, as in this case it frees up the pharmacy to do their job rather than answering yada calls.

Of course the "bad" AI stuff is very worrisome. But there is good and bad in virtually ANYTHING in life.

in 1962, the Beatles auditioned for Decca Records. The label's head of A&R, Dick Rowe, rejected them with the rationale that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "The Beatles have no future in show business"

In 1997, Digital Equipment Co. was the 2nd largest computer company in the world. The founder Ken Olsen, at the World Future Society, said " "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home".

If ToTV had a wider audience, this thread might someday be quoted with the same reverence.

‘Not an unreasonable question
 

Yep, it’s not an unreasonable question. For example, in western NC, Mountain Dew was (still is) the top choice mixer with either moonshine or corn/grain alcohol. ‘Been there, done that with elder relatives and friends.

AI - It’s early, and we have a long way to go with AI.

DIGITAL - When I lived in MA, I had a very close personal friend that was in product development/sales at Digital, about 1989-1990. At the time my IBM PC-XT from 1985 was running an Intel 8088 CPU, and my friend gave me a sneak preview of a new DEC laptop “prototype” with a 40MB hard drive, 128K RAM and an Intel 80-486 chip, it even had a dial up modem and weighed 6lb. His comment to me at the time was that “the average consumer could never use the power of that laptop”, and the concern was sales wouldn’t meet expectations. Today I have a LENOVO with Intel Core i9, 16 (6/8/2) cores, 64GB RAM, 2TB M.2 Memory, OLED display, weighs 3+ lb, and all the other bells and whistles. So, don’t underestimate the customer or the ability to adapt (unlike DEC).

PATIENCE - After over 45 years using both mainframes and PC’s/Laptops I am resolved in the belief that “you cant be too rich, too thin, or have too much computing power”. I expect AI will find a place and most users will learn how to leverage the technology. If not then it will fade away, and we will need to navigate the transition. It’s a tool, like the wheel, movable type, etc. and its up to the user to maximize it’s use.

AI Bots/Responses - True, some AI response are off the mark, and make no sense, so care is needed with results. These systems/applications need more learning, feedback and some need to go. However, I’m all for tools that make my life easier and free up time, as for me time is finite and I want to maximize it.

Like when we request AI confirm a hacking situation: "Yes, a TransUnion data breach was reported on August 28, 2025, affecting over 4.4 million people due to a third-party application used for TransUnion's support operations. The incident exposed names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers, though the company stated no credit information was accessed." Will AI ever prevent hackers and scammers from their evil deeds?

I have very similar experiences, living in MA, starting using a DEC mainframe PDP 8i in 1972, Dartmouth Basic timesharing in 1978, MAC in 1982 with Multiplan, the predecessor to MS Excel, trying to use statistics to win the lottery, trying to program a PC in 1986 for automated voyage reports, had a personal PC built in 1988 during grad school 'cause IBM selling PCs in suits was ludicrous, started with Dell towers in 1994/5 building financial models. . started working at an internet LAN/WAN R&D and manufacturing company when the internet was 3 years old, and during the next 5 years, the biggest users of internet at the time was porn watching late at night. (seriously).

in 1995, the engineers were designing ethernet for cable modems for home delivery, and was working with another developer for internet based real estate marketing and sales. . .I never have had enough speed: in 1999, waiting 20 minutes to save changes to the international budget models. . 3 changes per hour was painful. .

However, if you look at the time line from development above to what is almost ubiquitous today, there is longer than a 5 year full adoption cycle for universality. That is where we are today, at the beginning of a 5 + year cycle for software and data which may upset the world.

The fact that ChatGPT public release is trained on cheap(free) data, which is full of human biased crap, is the beginning like porn usage for the internet in the mid 1990s.

Today's data center build is like the fiber optic cable laying in the 1990s, infrastructure preparation prior to the software/usage/customers being developed. . However the ROI is not positive for more than 5 years, which makes the investments look frivolous, and will cause some investment pricing corrections, towards a more conservative, practical rate of investment and rollout as the software gets refined and the use cases start to produce real investment returns. . .

good luck to us as we worked during the best years of the technology age,
just as our parents lived and worked in the best years of the industrial age, and our grandparents lived at the best but last years of the agrarian age

No offense intended guys, but as with the discussion of AI, you're late adopters.

In 1967, by special arrangement with the USAF at Hanscom Field, we had a computer terminal at my high school, tied into a mainframe at the base. One Science teacher and myself, had it to ourselves, to play with. Writing a program to play Black Jack was about the pinnacle of our early computer career.

I graduated to an Atari 400 in 1979 and a MAC when they were introduced in 1984. 128K, 400K disk for data, system (3.8) & MacWrite & MacPaint. The first Mac with a Hard Drive, was the Mac XL in '85. No color until '87. VisiCalc was the available Spreadsheet software & DB Master was the Database of choice.

AI is far more advanced, than what you see with ChatGPT or most readily available sites. It's not in its infancy, it's all grown up and ready for prime time. When it gets to a point where it's discussed on a Senior Citizen's social media site, it's a mature technology that's about to be replace with the newest and the greatest.

BTW, the original DEC "laptop" wasn't anything like a "laptop". It came in a huge "suitcase". About the only people who actually bought one, were employees. They had an "employee purchasing program" and if I can remember correctly, they were $1800. Our favorite hangout bar/club was across the street from the Digital "Mill Building" in Maynard Center. The club held about 125 people. in the 80's, at least 110 of those people were DEC employees. As an aside to the DEC stories, Ken Olsen who started DEC, had a brother Stan. Stan (who wasn't the sharpest tack in the draw) developed Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, FL (about 1.5 hours from TV). There are 2 18 hole courses there, Ranch & Quarry. The Quarry course is spectacular, the Ranch is merely great. I bought in TV, when the Seller of a home I had under agreement at Black Diamond, started to be a pain.

Great historical and institutional perspective from a time before Microsoft, Cloud systems and mobile phones. As a user within a commercial insurance company, for me it wasn’t until the 1990’s that we started using networked PC’s and everything was IBM/compatible not Apple. Then again CFO’s were not early adapters of technology, and it took a special dispensation to secure a corporate laptop.

Thanks for sharing, I suppose perspective is informed based on where one was at the time.

I am reminded that . . . “The only constant in life is change”, … [Heraclitus c. 500 BC]

"Data" is a nice individual. Don't make him angry.

I started out using Telex machines, and thinking what a wonderful piece of kit it was, and would never be surpassed. I also remember near drowning in tape all over the Telex room.
AI will go the same way one day, when something smarter replaces it.
AI will probably invent its successor.
Ad infinitum.

My dear, departed grandmother drank CC and Mountain Dew. Her breath was "interesting".