I see from a BBC report that the Government is going to use AI to fix potholes :)
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I suggest the problem could be fixed by some common sense and less bureaucracy, and at a much lower cost.
Around my way in SE Essex the council seems to have new funds on the 1st January and the pot hole gangs are out filling the potholes on top of the frozen water they have collected.
Where friends live they are still sending out a gang to paint around potholes, then waiting a month or two before turning up to fix them. In the intervening time more potholes appear close by but not having been identified with paint they are not filled at the same time.
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Colin Macleod
AI = Automated Idiocy :-/
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Jethro_uk
I may start posting daily "AI" fails. It really is still f*ck all use to man nor beast.
Todays was simply knowing that asking Google (other s*it-for-brains are available) is incapable of "understanding" "When is the next X22 bus into town" - let alone answering it.
It knows *where* I am. From that it can "know" the bus services. And my nearest stops(s) It should be able to work out "into town" means Birmingham It should be able to connect to a livestream or at the very least parse the timetable
and form an answer.
If it can't do that, I really hope no one is trusting it to drive a f****ng car.
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The Natural Philosopher
I am going to invest in a can of spray paint
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Chris J Dixon
I use my Echo Show to play my MP3 tracks via Plex running on my PC.
There are times when Alexa fails to recognise artist or album when requested, and voice command is the only access available.
An album with "special" words in its title, like "Play up the Music" stands no chance. :-(
When I snooze the morning alarm, it takes up to 20 seconds for the radio programme I have selected to resume. Oddly, if I use "whisper" mode, then resumption is immediate. Go figure.
AI is a long way from ruling the world.
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Joe
And the ones which do get repaired don't get sealed properly, so they are potholes again after a few episodes of rain.
I'm not sure what they plan to do about areas of road which are more hole than road, such as at the end of my road.
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charles
In most areas, pothole filling is done by outside contractors. They wouldn't want to do themselves out of further work.
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Thomas Prufer
I asked Gemini how many degrees an electric 6.5 kW heater would heat a flow of
3.7 liters per minute.
Answer: 248 °K.
Bunch of waffle about unrealistic because losses would make that lower, and that water would boil before that.
Drilled down to find the mistake:
Gemini calculated 6500 J/s / (0,062 kg/s * 4186 J/kg*K) as 248 K.
Gemini calculated 6500/(0,062*4186) as ~25.
I asked about the discrepancy, the answer:
"I probably made a calculation error or wrote down a number incorrectly the first time. It is important to be careful when doing such calculations and to check the results."
"Wrote down the number incorrectly" -- a crap excuse for a program given a number in writing as input, sounds like a lame excuse form a schoolchild.
Gemini finally got it right, and prefaced the correct answer with using the phrase "Calculation using a calculator"... 24,8 K. (My calculator arrives at
25,04 by the way).
The place where language model meets calculation is visible. Gemini parsed the question correctly. It found the formula, formulated grammatically correct natural-language and correct explanations of why the answer would be different from a measurement (heat losses, boiling, overheat stat). It formulated reasonable-sounding excuses and explanations for its errors. It correctly cancelled the units in the formula, and completely f***ed up simple arithmetic.
Very odd, that's one thing I would have expected to Just Work.
Thomas Prufer
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Adrian Caspersz
Surely, CBF?
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