AI - A force for Good or Bad?

[Stubby]

12 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

I gather (from the tv programme about it - Mr Bates vs The Post Office - important television) that the programme wasn't AI but just somehow buggy in the [more] traditional sense. That and Fujitsu workers were manually fudging stuff in the back end to make things add up.

 

Still speaks to general competence and trustworthiness. 

Yes I watched that and subsequent programs . Apparently the PC program they used prior to the Fujitsu one was equally as crap . 

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[AHPP]

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[AHPP]

9 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

I don’t know what sort of stuff you’re into mate 

 

Asking from one IT professional to another you understand.

[AHPP]

On 28/10/2025 at 23:14, Macpherson said:

Personally I preferred this world before the complete dependence on digital pish that's invading every part of our organic lives.

 

I'm getting to the point of being pushed too far by self service tills. I shouted fck off at one just now and then shouted again to get someone to fix it (not rudely but in an arguably un-British way). There are five supermarkets within a few hundred metres here. I can easily boycott the ones that won't run tills (when asked, which I do, nicely), which is inevitably where this is going. They'll probably survive without my meagre spending but when I shouted earlier, the other ten people stood round the shit machines nodded in agreement. People have had enough of this bollocks.

[AHPP]

 

[AHPP]

No doubt a generated cartoon!

[Mark J]

10 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

I'm getting to the point of being pushed too far by self service tills. I shouted fck off at one just now and then shouted again to get someone to fix it (not rudely but in an arguably un-British way). There are five supermarkets within a few hundred metres here. I can easily boycott the ones that won't run tills (when asked, which I do, nicely), which is inevitably where this is going. They'll probably survive without my meagre spending but when I shouted earlier, the other ten people stood round the shit machines nodded in agreement. People have had enough of this bollocks.

I shouted at a traffic warden who gave me a ticket next to the hospital, yesterday. I reckon his surname was "20 goto 10".

AI is a seemingly a useful tool. I was a little on the fence as I had thought it mostly useful for admin based jobs. Caught up with some old friends over the weekend and one of them is now making a living advising construction/architectural sector on AI. 

[AHPP]

Aye. A mate builds legal industry AI. I'm thinking about killing him.

[Mark J]

10 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Aye. A mate builds legal industry AI. I'm thinking about killing him.

I won't go into detail here, but the implications and adoption of AI in the world of civil engineering are mind boggling. 

[AHPP]

No no no. Don't leave us hanging on that. Sounds interesting.