What cheeses me off

[anat0l]

WCMO are all those articles that apparently all describe, without fail or fault, how to get a free upgrade on board a flight.

W also CMO is how those articles got past the editor and why there isn't a separate circle of hell for those lazy and idiotic journos who wrote them.

 

[Pushka]

Another forum. Live Trip Reports. I'm quite keen to see how this cruise pans out as we are doing it in a few months. So, found the perfect Live TR. we have spent the last three weeks hearing about all sorts of irrelevant minutiae but the writer has an entertaining writing style so I've hung in with it. She is cruising to a different country and she is not purchasing a local sim. She has not purchased the ships wifi. Yesterday, she was about to leave her hotel to board the ship. It had free wifi so she was posting. So as she writes to depart the hotel she wrote, 'that's pretty much it for a week as I won't pay for ship wifi and I don't have a local phone'. . The only bit I was really interested in and had just invested reading two weeks of fluff. Ok I know I can read it later but that isn't the point. Don't call it LIVE when you KNOW that isn't what will happen. Of course two and three days delays can happen but they are simply random travel connection and time issues.

Another WCMO. Why can't I bold anything anymore on this forum? When editing. It's all greyed out.

Is LIVE the new click bait?

 

[Pushka]

WCMO are all those articles that apparently all describe, without fail or fault, how to get a free upgrade on board a flight.

W also CMO is how those articles got past the editor and why there isn't a separate circle of hell for those lazy and idiotic journos who wrote them.

the other day the media were promoting a Flyer Guru on how to get deals and service and lounge access. Then, in hushed reverent voice - he's a GOLD member of the QFF group.

 

[serfty]

Another WCMO. Why can't I bold anything anymore on this forum? When editing. It's all greyed out.

Are you in BB Code mode? Toggle using the icon to the upper right if the editor tool bar:

 

[Pushka]

Are you in BB Code mode? Toggle using the View attachment 436180icon to the upper right if the editor tool bar:

Ah. Thankyou. But when did that change? Used to be there by default without having to do that. I don't get into that thing called coding so clueless about such stuff so I know I didn't change it.

 

[serfty]

Ah. Thankyou.

It's been there since Xenforo - it may have been accidently activated with an errant click.

 

[TheRealTMA]

This headlong rush to the AI bubble is WCHO.

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

arstechnica.com

 

[dajop]

Turns out the spinach is little more than green splashes on the outside of an otherwise bland loaf. Will be a long while before we consider stopping at Bakers Delight again.

Reminds me of when we used our Priority Pass at MEL last month (we each had two passes expiring mid Feb), we used 2 of those at the Cafe Sol, airside in the international terminal, with $35 credit each. So we got some lunch for the next day , including a Chicken Schnitzel roll (I think it was $17 or $19). It had a nice piece of chicken sticking out the side of the roll. Come in sucker. The only chicken was the sticking out bit - a thin strip of chicken - with nothing inside the roll itself. Never again.

FWIW, we did use the remaining two at the Urban Providore for Burger and Chips + soft drink before adjourning to the QF lounge for some alcohol beverages and dessert. Which was just right, as the slop in QF lounge was just gravy and almost no protein *#WCMO as well if I hadn't eaten the burger before hand).

 

[anat0l]

This headlong rush to the AI bubble is WCHO.

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

arstechnica.com

I think what is C you O is not AI itself, but rather how much people aren't questioning its effectiveness and accuracy.

Given most AI these days is based on a learning model (rather than "expert system" in the past), like humans of course they need to be trained, and they keep learning. That's not to say that you can't trust AI if it makes a mistake - you need to trace back to how it made the mistake, and you certainly need sensible humans who can identify when it makes a mistake. IBM Watson took hours and hours of training and several blunders in testing before it became proficient enough to beat the best at Jeopardy (and it still failed when placing Daily Double and final round bids).

Turns out AI is just as bad as humans when it comes to something it doesn't know, i.e. they are extremely reluctant to admit they don't know and/or are wrong. But... we programmed those AI models to respond that way.

Fully trusting the AI models fundamentally is a mistake (as one law firm found out the hard way), but discarding and fully distrusting AI development categorically is not the answer either.

As with most things science and technology, the scientists and engineers prefer a methodical approach with proper contextual understanding whereas the popular media just wants to own the miracle in the most cavalier manner.... and then when things go wrong they will blame the scientists and engineers. If there's anything to be cheesed off about, it should be that.

 

[Quickstatus]

Fully trusting the AI models fundamentally is a mistake (as one law firm found out the hard way), but discarding and fully distrusting AI development categorically is not the answer either.

Yes, its just a tool. You can use the tool correctly or incorrectly. Either way the user is in charge.

and then when things go wrong they will blame the scientists and engineers

No they will blame whoever through a political lens whatever the underlying scientific or engineering credibility. Even the scientists are politicising themselves.