Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[overgeeked]

When I was a middle-school kid trying to learn D&D, I just foolishly assumed the math was deliberately obtuse, to make sure that only "older kids" would be able to play it. The way I saw it, that complicated math was intended to be a rite of passage (at best), or a bar to entry (at worst). So we made up our own math and our own rules, as kids will do.

But now I'm an adult with an engineering degree and I can confirm, yes, that was probably the case. And our solution is still the best recommended course of action.

Making it up yourself is always the best course of action.

 

[payn]

When I was a middle-school kid trying to learn D&D, I just foolishly assumed the math was deliberately obtuse, to make sure that only "older kids" would be able to play it. The way I saw it, that complicated math was intended to be a rite of passage (at best), or a bar to entry (at worst). So we made up our own math and our own rules, as kids will do.

But now I'm an adult with an engineering degree and I can confirm, yes, that was probably the case. And our solution is still the best recommended course of action.

We played HeroQuest instead.

 

[Deset Gled]

Weird. I have the exact same chain of thought when it comes to the language used in certain threads!

I would have thought your ignore list would turn those threads into blank pages by now.

I have questions and concerns

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Seems like a pretty typical posting for a grad student or post doc job in a Chem lab. I'm not kidding.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Y'know... If I'm googling something, filling the entire first page of results with stuff behind a paywall or that requires me to turn off my ad-blocker is... unhelpful.

Don't worry, in a few years, all of those content providers will have been killed off by Google just putting the AI generated "answers" on the front page, sidestepping their attempts to monetize. And then we can just rely on what Google Gemini pulls from various AIs hallucinating answers on pages filled with AI slop.

Man, who knew that Yahoo!'s web page registry would end up being the superior technology in the end? (Yahoo!, maybe get on bringing that back.)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Don't worry, in a few years, all of those content providers will have been killed off by Google just putting the AI generated "answers" on the front page, sidestepping their attempts to monetize. And then we can just rely on what Google Gemini pulls from various AIs hallucinating answers on pages filled with AI slop.

Woah. So Google searches will be just like my sophomore year of college!

Hallucinations, all the way down.

 

[Scribe]

And then we can just rely on what Google Gemini pulls from various AIs hallucinating answers on pages filled with AI slop.

Showed my son some direct examples of AI hallucinating so he would pause and question his results a bit more lol

 

[overgeeked]

Showed my son some direct examples of AI hallucinating so he would pause and question his results a bit more lol

I've tried to do that, too, but in response I get "you're intentionally trying to confuse it" or some such nonsense. Some people think “AI” is so amazing, so perfect, so awesome that any mistakes it makes must be user error or people lying about it. We are so completely screwed as a species.

 

[CleverNickName]

I've tried to do that, too, but in response I get "you're intentionally trying to confuse it" or some such nonsense. Some people think “AI” is so amazing, so perfect, so awesome that any mistakes it makes must be user error or people lying about it.

To be fair, if I had also invested billions of dollars into AI, and if my economic future was also dependent on getting as many companies to onboard AI as quickly as possible, I'd be saying the same things about it.

 

[Scribe]

I've tried to do that, too, but in response I get "you're intentionally trying to confuse it" or some such nonsense. Some people think “AI” is so amazing, so perfect, so awesome that any mistakes it makes must be user error or people lying about it. We are so completely screwed as a species.

I had screenshots from my test of 'give me the first 4 lines of...' and it failed.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Showed my son some direct examples of AI hallucinating so he would pause and question his results a bit more lol

I've tried to do that, too, but in response I get "you're intentionally trying to confuse it" or some such nonsense. Some people think “AI” is so amazing, so perfect, so awesome that any mistakes it makes must be user error or people lying about it. We are so completely screwed as a species.

Here’s the Legal Eagle discussing one of the early major cases of AI hallucinations in law: