Yesterday's equivalent was: "What was that hippie poster that was mostly text and included something like and if we find each other it will be beautiful?"
On Thursday, my idle musings got me to: "What is the old waltz most associated with ice skating?"
Without A.I., things like this would float along, fermenting, festering, and maybe one day you'd happen to run into the answer and think aha! I've been wondering about that for the longest time. Now, you can get the answer immediately, and it doesn't amount to much other than that I've destroyed the groundwork for what might have been a delightful aha moment somewhere done the road.
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Friends don't let friends move to Minneapolis.
AI still makes shit up
If you have a friend that uses phrases like friends don't let friends then that person isn't really a friend that person is a controlling a******. Real friends let real friends do stupid s*** then laugh about it later.
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice. Keep your pants on, and stay away from ICE.
I use AI mostly to look up arcane or trivial stuff. It's great, but even then I'm reflexively skeptical.
Friends don't let friends buy data centers
There's a lot to be said for immediate gratification. Puritans tend to find delayed gratification more gratifying and fulfilling, but it doesn't necessarily build character to delay scratching an itch.
This is so true. In seconds I am finding the answers to questions I didn't even need to ask. It adds up to wasting hours. It does seem to me that AI is really helpful to old people, since (again my opinion) we spend a larger proportion of our time trying to remember things or names or words or book plots.
William has nailed it. Immediate gratification is rarely found with anything but AI.
A traditional Google search would have found those answers, what the new AI tools do is summarize the results.
"The Skaters' Waltz." Really.
I guess people don't know where the stories they love come from. Movies, books, country songs. A lot of them come from writers thinking nagging questions and, while they aren't looking up the answers, thinking (eventually) of wholly unforseen plots, stories. I read your post. I knew the answer because I'm old. I'm also an old writer so, after stumbling around in my head for awhile, I thought, out of the blue, "Friends don't let friends... participate in a Civil War re-enactment."
Friends don’t let friends tell them that friends don’t let friends tell them that friends….
Friends don't let friends tell them what not to do.
Notably, no one has ever used the phrase "Friends don't let friends vote Democrat."
Tolerance is a one-way street.
The hippie text was from Easley, the Carmel retreat noted for all sorts of new-age “woo”. The full quote was credited to gestalt therapist Fritz Perls. Perhaps AI already told you this.
“Esalen”
Now, you can get the answer immediately, and it doesn't amount to much other than that I've destroyed the groundwork for what might have been a delightful aha moment somewhere done the road.
Kind of how smart phones ruined talking trivia - every answer was mere moments away.
I still try to remember things rather than look them up, especially for things that I know I should know, but just am drawing a blank on. I figure memory is one of those "use it or lose it" skills.
But I don't hesitate to go to Google or AI for things that I just want to know, as opposed to can't remember.
Last night I randomly googled our small Wisconsin mayor's full name + blackmail, to see if I'd get any results. Was surprised to get two-pages of AI response, identifying plenty of scandals which added-up is quite a big deal. Or maybe I wasn't that shocked after all. Small city corruption is about same as Big City corruption we thought we left.
"I've destroyed the groundwork for what might have been a delightful aha moment somewhere"
The road to that aha moment is lined with serendipity.
Every now and then, it is useful to ask AI about a topic that you know well. Even today, there is a very high likelihood that the answer will contain links to articles that aren't actually evidence of what the AI says they support or that are completely made up. AI definitely can give some great answers, but AI still gives objectively incorrect answers far too frequently.
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