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The only reason why it’s so incredibly good in many applications is because it’s bad in others. It’s intentionally designed that way.

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Yup. Same goes for anything with safety, privacy, or family in the name.

It is impossible to mathematically determine if something is correct. Literally impossible.

At best the most popular answer, even if it is narrowed down to reliable sources, is what it can spit out. Even that isn't the same thing is consensus, because AI is not intelligent.

If the 'supervisor' has to determine if it is right and wrong, what is the point of AI as a source of knowledge?

Yes, saying thinks out loud requires a different change in thinking because you are verbalizing the thoughts in addition to approaching it as an explanation instead of just an understanding. I know how a phone works, but describing how it works is a different thing from knowing. The duck is just a stand in for someone else to get the mindset of explaining

The small but important differences are what makes it another flavor.

Hallucinating is a fancy term for BEING WRONG.

Unreliable bullshit generator is still unreliable. Imagine that!

The rubber duck method is just another flavor of thinking out loud.

They used their corruption to redefine the corruption.

A six foot cockroach is huge for a cockroach.

The people that do spend the time trying to find out what it is for will remember the eNgAgEmEnT from needing to find out what it is and that correlates with future sales. Just like "rewards" programs that are designed to mentally lock someone into the store/product while harvesting their data.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad.

This isn't a joke. I would literally rather see a black screen than an ad.

People question the ability for it to be objective due to it being created and run by a single person combined with being an automated process that implies it is authoritative in the context of the communities where the bot is automated.

I think MBFC is about as good as is available, kind of like Snopes. Both have a history of trying to be objective even if they aren't perfect.

Perfection costs a whole lot more than really, really good because costs go up exponentially.

You need multiple times the staff on hand to cook and server everything at the same time, and they should be highly paid professionals. You need to be able to discard the majority of your food supplies, which already cost a lot more than normal, to have the perfect version of every dish. The setting probably costs a lot to set up and clean up after, and attention to detail costs time and money.

It is a huge waste, but that is why it costs so much.

i do wonder how often a technology is developed with vigor only to not sell well.

Remember 3D tvs? This is basically the same kind of 'screen but different' application that has limited uses and some inherent problems that may never be overcome in a way that makes them better than a simple flat screen.

There are tons of other inventions and innovations that hard work is put in to and don't pan out. Things not working out is just part of the process!

I’m not sure I can think of many practical applications for these devices.

Even using them for movie see through screens instead of CGI to save money probably wouldn't work due to not enough contrast under bright studio lights. They tend to CGI phone screens now.

The one theing they would be great for would be some kind of HUD style thing for whatever is behind the screen, but that would either be a vague info bit off to the sides or it would need to track the location of the person's eyes and what they were looking at for anything more precise. At that point it would be better as glasses/goggles.

We can only hope that literally being the ones to be involved in counting the votes and seeing the results for themselves first hand is enough to get them to accept reality.

They weren't put into their positions to accept reality. They were put there to deny reality.

Even though I think 60 is a good age for people to be able to retire, I also think that 60 is low for forced retirement.

How about we just fly fewer flags. I live in the center of the US and don't need to be reminded by every public building, car lot, and bigot's house of what country I live in.

Official federal and state buildings, those are fine.

So, same as the last two elections.

Ok.

Inclination must be ignored for area to work on a map, plus the inclination ends up being lost in the noise on a large scale. It is very similar to the coastline issue where the more detail you include the longer the coastline gets until every coastline is basically infinite.

Let's take an area split into a grid. One are has a hilly round slope, one is flat, and the rest are a variety of combinations. If you tried to take slope into account the one with the round hill would require the straight lines of the grid to warp towards it like one of those space time curvature pictures. The one that is flat is the only one that could be square, and even then it only works if you count it as flat since even flat ground has a small texture.

So no, they don't take elevation into account for maps because it would be far too difficult to measure.

The surface area can only be calculated with a defined level of accuracy due to how textured surfaces work.