Most uses of ai have proven to be nothing but complete cock-ups.
âForward,â an extremely ill-conceived billion-dollar âA.I. Doctorâs Officeâ business has just shut down abruptly. I just hope that dumpster-fire of a business model wasnât a peek at things to come. Some excerpts from the SF Gate article that make me want to weep:
The kiosks were billed as âthe worldâs first AI doctorâs office,â including a seat, various scanners, and the equipment to perform throat swabs and draw blood. Per TechCrunch, a CarePod subscription cost $99 a month, and Forward didnât accept insurance.
âSo we just said, letâs build health care in the same way that you would build a Tesla, the same way youâd build an iPhone, the same way you build a modern TV,â Aoun said. âWhich is: Itâs just kind of modern and intuitive and uses the latest technology.â
Now, other pages on Forwardâs website beyond the homepage all have the same message: âMuch like the healthcare system, this link is broken.â
I got ads for that. I had no idea wtf it was- it wasnât healthcare.
The idea of using a shared, publicly accessible machine to draw blood and provide medical diagnoses is terrifying on so many levels. Heck, even Robert Picardo malfunctioned from time to time.
Sorta feel like this fits in a few different readings of the thread title⌠
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âThis is for you, human. You and only you,â Gemini told the user. "You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.
âPlease die,â the AI added. âPlease.â
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Christ, what an asshole.
Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. âMore human than humanâ is our motto.
That should scare everyone shitless.
But it wonât.
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The two leaders affirmed the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons.
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Either the AI is getting different uses of a term confused, or this explains why I know so many women who are into knitting.
Looks like itâs been fixed already, but this one did give some of my knitting friends a laugh. 
Google manually fixing all these things has got to be a frantic game of âwack-a-mole,â where thereâs always something outrageous that needs squashing.
Avoiding the necessity of playing an infinite game of whack-a-mole was supposed to be why theyâre using âAIâ for this in the first place.
Itâs almost like theyâve been sold a pup, and are now desperately doubling down and pretending that itâs working so they donât look like the idiots everyone who isnât selling AI has been saying they are.
