AI - A force for Good or Bad?

[markieg31]

I listened to some talk by a women and it was about learning in schools. Obviously about retention of knowledge but saying how actually writing stuff down lodges in our brains better then work on screens, lots of schools do stuff on tablets and laptops. I for one know that if I write stuff down in a diary I will be more likely to remember it! If only I could find where I put that diary! As a consequence of loosing said diary I now use the calender on my phone, helpful because my wife can add stuff to the calendar.

[Steve Bullman]

We eat out a lot in Italy but in towns and villages far away from tourist areas where there’s no hope of an English menu. Logs the fact I can literally take a photo of a menu and  chatgpt will translate the dishes. It does have it uses! 

[Stubby]

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

My new Ranger has that, it’s actually very good.

I would not want that Mick . Its another step toward the taking of control away from the driver .I don't like the " invisible " hand that grabs the steering wheel if the " brain " thinks you are wandering out of your lane . There was some road works on the M27 with lots of over banding and painted out lines , temporary painted in lines ( thinner that the permanent lines ) and it lost the plot ! 

Edited 4 hours ago by Stubby

[AHPP]

I agree with Stubby. These things are monstrously dangerous. They can turn a good driver from calmly attentive into a nervous wreck with knuckles white on the wheel, spending more brainpower on wondering what the car's going to do next than focusing on the road.

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by AHPP

[Mick Dempsey]

Calm down Chicken Little. 
 

They’re easy enough to turn off.

[AHPP]

Then they can be easy enough to turn on, if you want them. You get into a hire car and it does shit like that by default. Miserable.

Edited 3 hours ago by AHPP

[Paul in the woods]

18 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

They’re easy enough to turn off.

 

That may invalidate your insurance, I know of someone who has been told by their insurance company not to turn 'safety' systems off such as lane assist.

 

I gather some manufacturers systems are better than others and I hope they improve. Personally I found lane assist unsuitable for the roads around here as you tend to frequently drive over one side of your lane to avoid potholes, debris and emerging cars etc. The car I drove had a tendency to violently steer you into something it couldn't see. I know of a couple of people where the emergency braking has been applied for no reason.

[Steve Bullman]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Calm down Chicken Little. 
 

They’re easy enough to turn off.

They aren't though. Every car I have driven with them on lets you disable but it resets it everytime you restart the car. I agree, lane assist is dangerous.

[AHPP]

10 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Every car I have driven with them on lets you disable but it resets it everytime you restart the car.

 

I'd come back to add that.

[Oldfeller]

Given the unreliability of electronic systems in modern vehicles, often costing more to rectify than the vehicle is actually worth, why anyone would want to drive something that relied more and more on electrics, especially ai is beyond belief.

even the basics ie; sat nav is flawed by multiple issues.

and ai has already proved to be unreliable and inaccurate.

I don't need a fecking machine to show me how to stay alive on the road, or anywhere else for that matter.