AI - A force for Good or Bad?

[sime42]

12 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

 

 

Exactly that. Probably a subconscious memory I had. 

 

She was one funny woman. 

[sime42]

13 hours ago, Steven P said:

 

Not AI related but the help yourself tills are a game, usual routine for me is the -usually a lady- (ladies don't get shouted at or the agro that men get) has to pop over once or twice a shop. I once managed to get the whole till to shut down, go off line and show the 'Windows' screen (not sure exactly how, wish I could remember what I did). If the lady isn't there with the fob, I'll just leave that till 'broken' and move to the next one (saw the shop staff run out the shop for a shoplifter, check the cameras and realise the 'shoplifter' was just doing his shopping at a till that was working right.

 

 

Yup, I know a few of the supermarket staff just because I'll ask them how their days were - trolley man who does saloon car racing, shelf stacker whose having a slow breakdown, other one whose boy is in the police - embarrasses The Boys "Dad how do you know them" "I don't, I just chat with them". AI won't do that.

 

 

On topic of course, AI will have to cope with the grumpy old child in me who loves to work out how to break the machines.

 

Let me know when you work out how to reliably break them.

 

 

[AHPP]

My favourite checkout girl at one shop reckons a hammer.

[sime42]

Or indeed an axe.

 

 

[AHPP]

[sime42]

On 03/11/2025 at 17:34, 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. 

 

Again, not AI, but another example of government incompetence and IT fckups.

Hopefully it's not the start of a new Horizon type scenario.

 

File on 4 Investigates - The IT bug that's caused chaos in the courts - BBC Sounds

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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An IT bug caused evidence to go missing or appear lost in some court cases.

 

 

UK justice system bug raises fears of hidden case files • The Register

WWW.THEREGISTER.COM

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: HMCTS expands investigation into IT flaw after whistleblowers draw Horizon comparisons

 

 

 

 

[sime42]

 

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

 

Again, not AI, but another example of government incompetence and IT fckups.

Hopefully it's not the start of a new Horizon type scenario.

 

File on 4 Investigates - The IT bug that's caused chaos in the courts - BBC Sounds

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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An IT bug caused evidence to go missing or appear lost in some court cases.

 

 

UK justice system bug raises fears of hidden case files • The Register

WWW.THEREGISTER.COM

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: HMCTS expands investigation into IT flaw after whistleblowers draw Horizon comparisons

 

 

 

 

 

You'd think an important function like justice would be carried out by capable people; failsafe, double checked etc. It isn't. It's performed as competently as anything else the government does.

 

Oh look, Alex is whingeing about government again. 

 

I talk with lawyers pretty much daily. I've done loads of bits of legal work experience. I've helped people with legal stuff. I've been through various legal proceedings on my own account, mainly doing it myself. Three days ago I settled an 18 month civil claim with a 9 year history, that I ran from start to finish. Same thing everywhere. Errors are the rule, not the exception. Two weeks ago I was served a copy of a court order (which you can go to prison for not obeying) mandating something be done by a date that had already passed. Evidently computer generated and not checked. You call the court. Everyone's off sick. They can look at it in about five weeks' time (by which time other contingent deadlines will have passed). You call the court via a different telephone number. You get a different answer. Total joke.

Edited 47 minutes ago by AHPP