The Postal Money Order: my last word on the "missing bank stamps" factoid

[Lance Payette]

"Modern AI—particularly large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems like OpenAI's Operator—is deliberately designed to be "eager to please" the user. This "people-pleasing" behavior is not born of emotion or desire, but rather through training techniques (such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) that reward the model for providing satisfying, relevant, and helpful responses."

  Leading A-I without first hand knowledge doesn't mean very much

Amen. I wish this "AI" and "Grok" crap would be banned from the forum.

OF COURSE, AI is going to pick up all the Armstrong-type stuff across the internet and indiscriminately make that its "answer." When challenged, it will find the Lance-type stuff - probably my first post here! - and regurgitate that. AI does no thinking at all.

I find it depressing that when an appellate lawyer with 40 years of experience spends probably 100 hours on this silly issue, with the work showing no signs of being anything other than rock-solid, someone is compelled to "check his work" with AI. Jesus Christ, what a world.

Run the Lamb Chop issue through AI just for fun. AI told me that SHARI LEWIS HERSELF HANDED LAMB CHOP TO JACKIE at Love Field. Ya think???

[John Corbett]

Amen. I wish this "AI" and "Grok" crap would be banned from the forum.

OF COURSE, AI is going to pick up all the Armstrong-type stuff across the internet and indiscriminately make that its "answer." When challenged, it will find the Lance-type stuff - probably my first post here! - and regurgitate that. AI does no thinking at all.

I find it depressing that when an appellate lawyer with 40 years of experience spends probably 100 hours on this silly issue, with the work showing no signs of being anything other than rock-solid, someone is compelled to "check his work" with AI. Jesus Christ, what a world.

Run the Lamb Chop issue through AI just for fun. AI told me that SHARI LEWIS HERSELF HANDED LAMB CHOP TO JACKIE at Love Field. Ya think???

AI is proof of the adage, "Garbage in, garbage out". All it can do is regurgitate what is already out there. I've seen no evidence there is actually any intelligence involved in AI.

I spent 25 years in data processing. I know what computers can and can't do. The are not capable of independent thought. They do what they are programmed to do. AI is just very sophisticated programming that can give the appearance of independent thought. AI can replace workers in some fields by doing repetitive tasks so that is something that will have to be dealt with but history tells us technology creates as many jobs as it displaces. I'm not worried about computers taking over the world. If worse comes to worst, we can always do what Dorothy did to the Wicked Witch of the East and throw water on it. I've yet to see an electronic device that can survive that.