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by rstuart4133
1174 days ago
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> It returns with four options, approximate travel times and advantages and disadvantages. This trust in it's response reminds me early days of the internet. That would be the time when the people who created it were just exploring what the technology could do. It was a wonderful time. People posted amazing HOWTO's to Usenet that were chock full of useful information, you only received email from like minded friends, and almost nothing was censored and most of it was useful. It looked like the future was bright. But then it grew so big you could not recognise most of the sources, and into that void stepped content aggregators like MySpace and Facebook I refuse to go near, and Alta Vista started ranking stuff by how much they were paid. Usenet was overrun by lies from spammers as was my inbox. And now if I don't run an ad-blocker, I find it difficult to differentiate Google's search results from the ads at the top, and near bloody impossible on sites like Amazon, and GMail / Hotmail mines my personal correspondence for ways to manipulate me. And so it will be with those concise AI responses. Except you have absolutely no way to cross verify - you only get what a machine that will likely be far smarted than any of us wants you to know, in order to maximise it's profit. Thank you, but I'll pass. |
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