Morris Minor Owners Club

I listed an item on eBay. Regarding the box for entering a description, there was an option to have this done by AI, so curious I thought I’d try this. The resultant description was a glossy portrayal of the item I listed. A bit OTT I thought, just like one might expect from an enthusiastic advertising company. It’s amazing how details are collected and composed in an elaborate form.
This is just the beginning, thing are getting into the realms of science fiction.

Friend and daughter driving recently and in the conversation mum asked what is a *$#*&. ?
To the surprise of both, the car answered neither new the car had some sort of siri built in and active.

Apparently 20% of people who work in AI believe that it will eventually kill us all.

stuffedpike20 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:01 pm Apparently 20% of people who work in AI believe that it will eventually kill us all.

Then what?

Maybe the wildlife gets its living space back.

It's a strange world, this AI.
I posted on one of the many FB pages to which I subscribe an AI-generated description of the attributes of a Morris Minor.
It rather frightened me. The whole process from enquiry to appearance of this Quinceyesque prose took about 2 seconds, and it was profuse.

In similar vein I conducted an exercise on the Riley RM series cars and owners, which I have published in my latest issue of the owners' club magazine.
The car thus AI-depicted is nothing whatsoever like the actual reality, whilst the image of a typical owner would walk straight in to a male modelling career, thus proving to me the differential between AI and reality.

I wrote this myself by the way.

Classiccars wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:08 pm Maybe the wildlife gets its living space back.

Now that would be worth dying for !

les wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:40 pm I listed an item on eBay. Regarding the box for entering a description, there was an option to have this done by AI...

I'm surprised it was an option, I've seen it automate the description all ready and waiting for you (and get it completely wrong since it decided the condition "used" meant "brand new").

unclealec wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:44 pm I wrote this myself by the way.

.... sounds like something an AI would say!

AI isn't always that good, here is its attempt at a text prompt to image Morris Minor:

It's not quite right....
(the prompt I gave it was "An AI genereated Morris Minor", maybe my typo threw it).

Chief wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:22 pm .... sounds like something an AI would say!

That is a point of great goodness, and one which should be appreciated by all who read it.

myoldjalopy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:51 pm

stuffedpike20 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:01 pm Apparently 20% of people who work in AI believe that it will eventually kill us all.

Then what?

I think we have talked about this on here before.
Apparently if you ask AI how to solve climate change, it says 'Kill all the humans'.
When you point out to it that, because of Asimov's Law, it can't kill all the humans, it says 'Stop the humans from having babies'.

Pandora's Box. We are sleepwalking into a future we have no chance of controlling.