AI came in really handy for us this past weekend. We were about to travel to Casper, Wyoming, and needed to know what check-in time was for our motel. So I asked “What time is check-in-time for C’mon Inn in Casper, Wyoming?” The answer came back, immediately: 4:00 PM. We could have called the motel or gone to the website, but AI is making our easy lives even easier than they were already.
And, of course, AI is telling us the truth about unimportant matters, while lying about the big stuff. Just like Wikipedia, Snopes, Google/Bing/Yahoo … that’s the marketing plan, to fill in details on stuff like celebrity birthdays and movies, and lie about important stuff, like Climate Change, wars, 9/11, and even now-insignificant things like Jonestown, Waco, and Tiananmen. I’ve argued with AI about, say Newton’s Third Law, and the impossibility that jet airliners could cause a skyscraper to implode (says AI: The airliner impact set about a vibration that eventually eroded the structure). I have asked about the impossibility that astronauts could withstand radiation in space, especially the Van Allen belts (says AI, they just went really, really fast, and scooted right on through!). **
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