I often think the reality of robots comes from the BBC automatic captions - today it told me that CEMETERIES would rise to 30 degrees (instead of temperatures). Nuclear war will start when government says YES instead of NO by mistake.

I asked chat gpt why the Eurovision was held in Brighton in 1974. It said this is because the Carpenters won the year before and the previous winning nation gets to host the contest. This is completely false, they didn't win. It has since been updated to say that it is because Luxembourg won the year before and couldn't afford to hold the contest, so the UK stepped in. You can't trust it, it often presents rumour as truth.

I've noticed that the headlines, or whatever they're called, in the red bit at the bottom of the screen during BBC news broadcasts can sometimes be a bit strange.

Wonder if this is due to AI:

'Mariupol is diseased': Residents deny Russian claims occupied city returning to normal

"There are a lot of lies floating around," says 66-year-old Olha Onyshko who escaped from Mariupol late last year and now lives in Ukraine's Ternopil.

"We had a beautiful city but now it's diseased. I wouldn't say they [Russian authorities] have repaired a lot of things. There's a central square – only the buildings there have been reconstructed. And there are also empty spaces where buildings stood. They cleared the debris, but they didn't even separate out the dead bodies, they were just loaded on to trucks with the rubble and carried out of the city," she adds.

robbiex wrote:
I asked chat gpt why the Eurovision was held in Brighton in 1974. It said this is because the Carpenters won the year before and the previous winning nation gets to host the contest. This is completely false, they didn't win. It has since been updated to say that it is because Luxembourg won the year before and couldn't afford to hold the contest, so the UK stepped in. You can't trust it, it often presents rumour as truth.

I am not sure it's ChatGPT, but AI is now creating fictional bands like Velvet Sundown.

robbiex wrote:


You can't trust it, it often presents rumour as truth.


Spot on Robbie. It processes masses of information on the internet at a superhuman speed and summarises what it finds.

The trouble is increasingly most stuff on the internet is "post truth" bollocks. It takes a human intelligence, time and tenacity to discern this.

Artificial intelligence is processing power not "intelligence" in any intelligent sense.

The live subtitles aren't reallly anything to do with AI, they are just interpreted speech, it has been going on for years. It just tries to convert the sounds to words, which can be difficult with unusual accents.

The extensive use of A1 on Youtube can really annoy me.

There are endless videos made with AI that are such a waste of time but they probably make money.

I don't even like the annoying use of it to make Donald Trump look awful. Mind you there are some of him I think are really amusing..pLaying the piano Elton John style etc. Some are clever.

Didn't a TV program predict all this decades ago?

Oh yes..MAX HEADROOM !

robbiex wrote:
The live subtitles aren't reallly anything to do with AI, they are just interpreted speech, it has been going on for years. It just tries to convert the sounds to words, which can be difficult with unusual accents.

It still has trouble with Northern accents and Scottish dialects.


At the moment AI is just making harmless audio visual memes. But it will turn sinister soon.

Trainspotting's Irvine Welsh: We've become 'dumbed down machines'

He also thinks the internet is making us more stupid. "When you get machines thinking for you, your brain just atrophies." He fears we're heading towards "a post-democratic, post-art, post-culture society where we've got artificial intelligence on one side and we've a kind of natural stupidity on the other side, we just become these dumbed down machines that are taking instructions".