I play pitch on my iPad, been playing it for years. It is so difficult to beat it. Drives me nuts. It knows how to bait me to use my trump cause I have to. I can have the perfect hand and it screws me. I DO NOT blame it on the computer knowing my hand!
Alexa doesn’t have a weather reporting station outside your house. It relies on the one closest to you. A relative term. And, speaking of relative terms, Happy Father’s Day.
ChatGPT gets all snide and snippy when you correct it when it’s wrong. Apple Weather app on the iPhone on the other hand has a function where you can tell it it’s wrong. MSN Weather app on the XBox has quit working altogether months ago.
So do weather forecasters which is a misnomer. They claim it will rain and it doesn’t. They haven’t a clue. What is worse is it doesn’t rain for 2 months and they sound happy about it!!! I’m a gardener and I am not pleased.
Jokes aside, I don’t have and won’t ever have one in the house. Also got rid of 2 Roombas because they spent too much time stuck under furniture or just missing stuff. I can clean the same room in about 15 minutes.
Current cell phone weighs 14oz with a ton of stuff I will never use riding the chip. Continuous updates of no value to me. Increasing numbers of serious accidents are the result of drivers texting in traffic.
Tablet uses up to 4 minutes ‘optimizing’ software on every start. Again, of no value to me.
Tell me, please, just how has those electro-digital pests have improved the quality of life.
Well AI does appear to reflect whatever biases its software engineers wrote into it…intentional or not… so it’s likely always gaslighting one group or another… maybe we need to treat its info like we treat info from humans? By using our own judgement…and with a grain of salt???
We don’t have Alexa or any other such device but when we go to the home of someone who does my husband always asks “Alexa, what’s the meaning of life?” spoiler alert, she doesn’t know.
I have Amazon Echo devices all over my house. Every one of them has a button on the top to TURN OFF THE MICROPHONE. That also makes the unit useless, but, whatever…Every morning, before I get out of bed, I ask the Echo Dot on my headboard “Alexa, what is the weather today?” and she says “Today in Sunnyvale the weather is… and today it will be…”. This morning she asked if I’d like a more complete rundown each time I ask, and I replied “no thanks”. I use these devices to find out the time the drug store near me opens on Sunday, what’s the score in an ongoing baseball game, etc. etc. etc. They are extremely useful to me, but many people have convinced themselves that they’re something nefarious. It’s their loss.
This is what my experience has been with the free AI chatbots. They get some crazy idea from the online discussion groups they were trained on and you cannot disabuse them of the notion. I had one tell me repeatedly that “baby on board” signs were deprecated because they could cause road rage.
Once I had the music on pretty loud, and I thought I had to shout over it to tell Alexa to lower the volume. She said, “You don’t have to raise your voice to me.” (really happened). Related story – I was rubbing my sore knee while watching TV, and an ad for Voltaren came on, with the announcer asking “Got knee pain?”
One of the top concerns when it comes to the harms of social media and political polarization in the United States is the fear of echo chambers or people operating in media bubbles. from Wired
I don’t think gaslighting is learned. I think it’s an automatic response reflex. Like when I drop the f bomb when I stub my toe (always on the left foot).
So, what is it called when you’ve only listened to data sources that tell you what you want to hear so long, you don’t even care anymore if you happen to hear data that you can’t deny is true but doesn’t fit into the world you now live in, so you just ignore it? Is that a real form of echo-chamber delusion syndrome? Is this comic a straw-man argument against such a thing existing?
“I have ECDS? that’s ridiculous, it’s like claiming it’s raining when clearly it isn’t.” and/or “Oh, I don’t have a problem seeing both sides of the issue, you’re just trying to gaslight me”? Is that it?
Eh, maybe I’m overthinking it and it’s just a cute joke about AI getting too intelligent.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Alexa, does the forecast call for rain?”
“Eventually ….”
AllishaDawn over 1 year ago
Alexa, is it going to rain here today?
The dude from FL Premium Member over 1 year ago
I play pitch on my iPad, been playing it for years. It is so difficult to beat it. Drives me nuts. It knows how to bait me to use my trump cause I have to. I can have the perfect hand and it screws me. I DO NOT blame it on the computer knowing my hand!
franki_g over 1 year ago
Alexa didn’t say WHERE it was raining..
Cornelius Noodleman over 1 year ago
Dad told my brother, don’t light your gas.
keenanthelibrarian over 1 year ago
What – GASLIGHTING BY INANIMATE OBJECTS???!! Be afraid … be VERY afraid ..
WDemBlk Premium Member over 1 year ago
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads.
enigmamz over 1 year ago
This is when you go into Settings and turn her and/or Siri OFF.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
My issue is that my internet and cell service shows my location to be half a state away, so what is local?
Masterskrain over 1 year ago
They BOTH have “Artificial Intelligence”.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 1 year ago
The broth is only as good as the stuff you boiled in it.
ladykat over 1 year ago
Be nice, Alexa.
BRBurns1960 over 1 year ago
Well, it is almost certainly raining right now. No location stipulated.
LawrenceS over 1 year ago
Alexa doesn’t have a weather reporting station outside your house. It relies on the one closest to you. A relative term. And, speaking of relative terms, Happy Father’s Day.
TechInDallas over 1 year ago
ChatGPT gets all snide and snippy when you correct it when it’s wrong. Apple Weather app on the iPhone on the other hand has a function where you can tell it it’s wrong. MSN Weather app on the XBox has quit working altogether months ago.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago
So do weather forecasters which is a misnomer. They claim it will rain and it doesn’t. They haven’t a clue. What is worse is it doesn’t rain for 2 months and they sound happy about it!!! I’m a gardener and I am not pleased.
sandpiper over 1 year ago
Jokes aside, I don’t have and won’t ever have one in the house. Also got rid of 2 Roombas because they spent too much time stuck under furniture or just missing stuff. I can clean the same room in about 15 minutes.
Current cell phone weighs 14oz with a ton of stuff I will never use riding the chip. Continuous updates of no value to me. Increasing numbers of serious accidents are the result of drivers texting in traffic.
Tablet uses up to 4 minutes ‘optimizing’ software on every start. Again, of no value to me.
Tell me, please, just how has those electro-digital pests have improved the quality of life.
preacherman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Well, technically, it is raining, somewhere. But, not here. Tomorrow, and the rest of the week: that’s a whole different matter.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Everyone needs to see that movie, so we all know what everyone seems to be talking about. “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, just doesn’t get it anymore.
William Bednar Premium Member over 1 year ago
A.I. has not become sentient, it has become Republican…ahhhh,…run…!
Papakillamon over 1 year ago
Dwight Eisenhower and Bernie Sanders synch up ideology wise withholding the prevalent racism
Prey over 1 year ago
maybe he should have asked “is it going to rain here!”
majkmushrm Premium Member over 1 year ago
And people wonder why I won’t allow Alexa or Siri to be operating in my house.
Mediatech over 1 year ago
“For the rain it raineth every day.” – Shakespeare
paranormal over 1 year ago
I’d throw that blamed heifer contraption in the garbage…
SusieB over 1 year ago
Same thing happened to me yesterday. It did start raining about 15 minutes later.
kathleenhicks62 over 1 year ago
Makes no sense.
barryambr over 1 year ago
I can google faster and get better answers.
Holden Awn over 1 year ago
Well AI does appear to reflect whatever biases its software engineers wrote into it…intentional or not… so it’s likely always gaslighting one group or another… maybe we need to treat its info like we treat info from humans? By using our own judgement…and with a grain of salt???
Ishka Bibel over 1 year ago
Every night at 7 Alexa tells me it is going to rain tomorrow. Being the Rainy Season, she is usually right.
laskeans over 1 year ago
We don’t have Alexa or any other such device but when we go to the home of someone who does my husband always asks “Alexa, what’s the meaning of life?” spoiler alert, she doesn’t know.
LeftCoastBoomer Premium Member over 1 year ago
I have Amazon Echo devices all over my house. Every one of them has a button on the top to TURN OFF THE MICROPHONE. That also makes the unit useless, but, whatever…Every morning, before I get out of bed, I ask the Echo Dot on my headboard “Alexa, what is the weather today?” and she says “Today in Sunnyvale the weather is… and today it will be…”. This morning she asked if I’d like a more complete rundown each time I ask, and I replied “no thanks”. I use these devices to find out the time the drug store near me opens on Sunday, what’s the score in an ongoing baseball game, etc. etc. etc. They are extremely useful to me, but many people have convinced themselves that they’re something nefarious. It’s their loss.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
This is what my experience has been with the free AI chatbots. They get some crazy idea from the online discussion groups they were trained on and you cannot disabuse them of the notion. I had one tell me repeatedly that “baby on board” signs were deprecated because they could cause road rage.
dhart109 over 1 year ago
The word “data” is plural. You need to use plural verbs…
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 1 year ago
Once I had the music on pretty loud, and I thought I had to shout over it to tell Alexa to lower the volume. She said, “You don’t have to raise your voice to me.” (really happened). Related story – I was rubbing my sore knee while watching TV, and an ad for Voltaren came on, with the announcer asking “Got knee pain?”
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
Like 4 o’clock, it’s always raining somewhere.
viniragu over 1 year ago
An acknowledgement of Father’s Day would have been nice!!
mindjob over 1 year ago
Not only can’t I believe my lying’ eyes, I can’t believe the feeling I get when the raindrops keep falling’ on my head
AndrewSihler over 1 year ago
Oh, please: data is plural. I know that sounds a little awkward, but it’s the truth.
Ray Helvy Premium Member over 1 year ago
This is ChatGPT all over. Remember, behind every AI is a team of programmers… and a corporation.
unfair.de over 1 year ago
First: he didn’t specify where it rains.
And second: Alexa is paid by psychotherapists.
Tootsie Premium Member over 1 year ago
One of the top concerns when it comes to the harms of social media and political polarization in the United States is the fear of echo chambers or people operating in media bubbles. from Wired
monya_43 over 1 year ago
“The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” In case anyone wants to know.
bakana over 1 year ago
I thought Gaslighting was Google’s job?
MyFathersSon over 1 year ago
Hello wiretap.
eddi-TBH over 1 year ago
The next thing I’d put out the window is Alexa.
Isenthor1978 over 1 year ago
I don’t think gaslighting is learned. I think it’s an automatic response reflex. Like when I drop the f bomb when I stub my toe (always on the left foot).
DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago
“I have ECDS? that’s ridiculous, it’s like claiming it’s raining when clearly it isn’t.” and/or “Oh, I don’t have a problem seeing both sides of the issue, you’re just trying to gaslight me”? Is that it?
Eh, maybe I’m overthinking it and it’s just a cute joke about AI getting too intelligent.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 1 year ago
Your own fault it’s not raining…..
Uncle Kenny over 1 year ago
Hey, Alexa, why is Richard Nixon sitting next to me at the bar?
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
The weatherman is always wrong, with or without a computer