sorry I just had to post this, was way too funny not to.

Was in the car with my friend today and here's the dialog

Tom Tom: Where are we going today
Goddy: Go to hell Tom Tom
Tom Tom: Unrecognized destination sir
Goddy: We can start by driving in the detroit river
Tom Tom: Make the next right then go straight

Me: RotfBBQ

haha, the wonders of modern technology

we have a navman and one time we were in a car park, but it thought we were in the middle of nowhere and kept spinning round telling us to find the nearest road on the screen but it kept saying "turn left, turn left"

then when we got to the junction to get back onto the road it said "turn left, turn left, turn left" in quick succession, i think it was very eager for us to turn left.

Haha lol , thats technoligy. They have ai but its not as good as our brains

Don't brag. It is our brains that came up with that AI!

i don't think that AI is ever going to be as good as real intelligence so we just have to put up (or "make use of") with what we have now

Define "good". That AI can do maths better than a million Chinese school kids.. Yet a demented ant is probably better at finding its way around the world..

well the maths is calculations which would be done in binary so personally i wouldn't put that under AI, otherwise a calculator would have AI

you're not wrong about the ant though

Yes because AI is artificial intelligence, not real.
There's nothing like the real thing eh?

Well i'm not entirely convinced of that! Atleast AI wouldnt switch a psu to 110volts in a 240volts area then ask "what do you think is wrong?".

That did actually happen in a thread on TS. When I pointed out that it will have done plenty of damage and wasnt the smartest thing to do by a long way the original poster altered his first post to disguise what he had done.

that is a good point, Rik i even remember that thread i think it was called "Smoke!"?

if not then the one with that title was about somebody who fiddled with their CMOS battery or something and smoke came out

either way, i remember them saying (the psu explodey person) that it went bang and smelt funny

He was looking at a pc for a friend if memory serves and i replied along the lines of "I hope she is a good friend because you probably owe her a new pc". Or something very close to that.

It was a major candidate for "Stupid things people do to their pc's" for sure lol.

o my god you wont belive me but well i jest laughed sooo hard that i started crying!!!!!!!!!! o man i seriusley cried.

I just read it again, it is simply hilarious.

You got that right

A really good book to read is the Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose link, it's a journey through the world of Set theory and Turning machines and infinite number theory, physics (just to bring the reader up to speed) and then the last several chapters discuss the limitations of AI based on our theoretical concepts of mathematical modelling, computational theory and even quantum mechanics.

It's a mammoth read and not recommended for the light of head.
Education: "That which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
Mark Twain

Seems a bit interesting

Oh, there's a much better example of man, his machine and stupidity (and this time the stupidity was not on the machine)

Now granted this happened back in December of 1998 when nav systems were pretty new and novel... but there's a true case of a German couple who followed their nav system's directions and drove right into the Pottsdam River!

BBC World Service: Satellite navigation system guides driver into river


If you hunt it down, there are longer articles around on the incident as well.

Yes, i think i've heard of this incident of a man who drove into a river.
I think the satelite navigation needed an update.

At this point in the discussion could somebody explain what "real intelligence" is.

The tom tom situation was hilarious but now its spawning this conversation into intelligent work.