Artificial Stupidity

[morqthana]

I was presented with this wonder of AI recently having done a search for MGB reliability:

Generally good

MGB reliability is generally good, and the car is considered to be durable and reliable. The electrical system has been greatly improved, increasing reliability. The MGB system reliability includes internal self-monitoring software linked to service centers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to ensure consistent performance. While there’s no reason why an MGB should be unreliable if it’s looked after and serviced regularly, parts are readily available.

The bit I highlighted made me laugh. So this tool which is going to take over the world can't tell the difference between a 40-year old BL car and this: https://mgb-oilfield.com/

 

[foxhole]

It can, your search was not specific according to your post .

 

[morqthana]

However "unspecific" a search may be, what kind of person wants to receive information on both MGB cars and MGB oil well/fracking plant, and would find each equally useful?

 

[foxhole]

However "unspecific" a search may be, what kind of person wants to receive information on both MGB cars and MGB oil well/fracking plant, and would find each equally useful?

No one that’s why you have to be specific.The search doesn’t use AI.

 

[morqthana]

You're missing the point.

Unless the AI system in question has forcibly taken over the search facility and cannot be evicted, then of course the search facility decided to present me with that pile of bllcks.

I will be as specific as I need to be when searching, or can be (which, ever since the demise of AltaVista has never been "enough"), but there is no way other than "desperately, brain-dead incompetent" to describe any IT system whatsoever returning that jumbled collection of unrelated bllcks as a search result.

And there's no way that anybody responsible for an AI tool ought to consider it anything other than broken if it produces bllcks like that.