My counter is that if the question I ask the chat bot is too complicated to answer, then it should be redirected to a person that can.

Whenever I’m thinking of examples where I interface with these bots, it’s usually because my internet is down or some other service. After the most basic of prompts, I expect actual customer service, not being pawned off in something else.

It really is a deal breaker in many cases for me. If I were to call in somewhere as a prospective customer, and if I were addressed my a computer, I will not do business there. It tells me everything I need to know about how a company views it’s customers.

I do think “AI” as an internal tool for a lot of businesses makes sense in a lot of applications. Perhaps internal first contact for customer service or in code development as something that can work as a powerful linter or something that can generate robust unit testing. I feel it should almost never be customer facing.

I mainly disagree with you out of spite for AI, not because I disagree with the ideal vision that you have on the topic. It hasn’t been super mainstream long enough for me to be burned as many times as I have been, and the marketing makes me want to do bad things.

Anecdotally, service members are majority boot lickers. I’m going to baselessly claim that marines in particular are some of the worst, and that many sign up just for the title and the discount. 0 respect for these traitors.

Whenever I call in to a service because it’s not working, when I get stuck talking to a computer, I’m fucking furious. Every single AI implementation I’ve worked with has been absolute trash. I spam click zero and yell “operator” when it says it didn’t hear me or asks for my problem, and I’ve 100% of the time made it through to a person. People also suck, but they at least understand what I’m saying and aren’t as patronizing.

You don’t need “ai” to do any of that. That is something we’ve been able to do for a long time. Whether or not call centers or help desks implemented a digital assistant is a different story.

I hope they all go under. I’ve no sympathy for them and I wish nothing but the worst for them.

You’re not wrong, but every lawsuit bought against them slows progress. Also the sheriff of a town in Florida doesn’t have quite the same protections as more of the top brass that are destroying this place.

I love the whole album. Caramel definitely has some weight to it. I don’t know Even in Arcadia is better than Take me Back to Eden, but it’s close if it’s not.

I thought the prevailing belief amongst morons is that more guns == more safety?

Also, when did vandelism start carrying a death penalty charge? There has got to be a group out there that’s looking to take legal action against these types of statements from a public official, right? Idk what laws, but that’s got to be illegal.

Completely unrelated, but the band Sleep Token released a song title Damocles in their recent album, and it’s great. The whole album and everything they release is great, but I am particularly fond of Damocles.

You think that the civil right movement was peaceful?

Edit… I reread your comment and realized that python does it differently and that everything I typed was irrelevant… I’m still gonna leave it if anyone is interested in ternary expressions, but I suppose the answer to your question is, that’s just how python does it.

That’s how ternary operators are designed to work. In essence, if you’re looking to do a single line if/then, you can directly assign a variable from the result of a ternary expression.

As an example, I was scripting something earlier where there may or may not be a value returned from a function, but I still had to do something with that return value later. For this thing, I was using JavaScript.

I ended up with:

return platform == "name"  ? "Option 1" : "Option 2"

If I were to write that out in a typical if/then it would be:

if (platform == "name") {
    return "option 1"
} else {
    return "option 2"
}

A ternary starts with a boolean expression, then the if true value, else the false value. That’s returned to either a variable or if in a function like my example, to the object calling the function. It’s just a way to write less code that in many cases is easier to read.

Peaceful protests have literally never solved anything of significance. Perhaps I’m ignorant to something, but if there has ever been a nationwide peaceful protest that has accomplished something, I’d love to hear it. I’d love to hear stories from non US nations as well if there are stories there.

This dude can rest in piss. Eat shit you fucking traitor. I feel for the staff, but this cunt is worthless.

And honestly, that is only the things that can be said. I wish far worse in these terrorists.

The military has always been heavily populated by some of the shittiest people. The prospect of carrying a weapon and killing others or just wielding power over others, attracts a certain type of person. In the US since at least 9/11, there’s been a disgusting amount of military propaganda that has certainly brought in some people that care and want to do the right thing (for the ignorant wrong reasons) but also the shits that are all in because they think they’re tough shit.

Service people don’t deserve any more respect than any other profession, and I’d argue in many cases, they deserve less respect. There’s hasn’t been a draft in a hot minute, so everyone currently in is voluntary. Some soldiers do wind to in life threatening situations, but it’s far from the most dangerous job and to me, killing innocence in the middle east for no good reason doesn’t earn you any valor in my book.

They’re all a bunch of pawns, and I’ve seen about 2 out of all of them actually stand up and oppose the Trump admin and thousands of others bend over, take it, and ask for more. This article and LA further reenforces my belief that being in the military isn’t something noble, but more akin to being in a gang where all of the members are brainwashed and have no spines.

Cool, but that doesn’t happen in the general election. The seems aren’t good, but had 3rd party and non voters voted for Harris, then yes, the Democratic party would have saved us from Trump. Realistically, it’s the people saving us from Trump via the Democratic party, but at the end of the day, we got Trump because those same individuals decided a Trump presidency was the better outcome. Full stop.

If someone is going to Wikipedia specifically looking for information in a STEM field, then an AI summary isn’t going to help them. Odds are they can also read, because they’re looking up STEM topics.

Also, is Wikipedia not available around the world, or you just think only Americans can’t read? Inflammatory just for the sake of being inflammatory I’m guessing. Shit troll job.

I agree with you on everything you wrote.

I’m not trying to say that Harris would have been good for Palestine, or even a good POTUS. I’m saying she was the less bad option overall in the election. I don’t know that anything would be different with Israel had she won, but I think there was a better chance that she would have done something good over Trump doing something good. That could still be a negligible chance, but it was the better of two chances.

Like you said, local elections and primaries (when they’re held, but that’s separate from this overall conversation) are when to vote for different parties and more fringe candidates. One of two people is already the winner in the election by the time November rolls around, so it comes down to least bad.

You’re right, it would have, but the reality was Trump or Harris. It was still an extremely easy decision, but it would have been better if the less shitty candidate was even less shitty.

It was, because that’s reality. It does disregard a lot of criticism, because again, at the end of the day, there were two candidates, and one was going to win. Harris wasn’t, imo, a good candidate, but Trump was a far worse.

In the US, it’s been that way for the better part of the past century, because FPtP always devolves to a two party system. This past election was no different.