Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!

There are no safe guards and more and more industries want to use AI for things. Like AI being used in health insurance or worse AI being used to give medical advice by tele health...which right now is only an idea. And AI glitches (hallucinates) and comes up with weird answers that can cause problems.

Like suggesting super glue on pizza because it regurgitated some joking reddit comment.

And there was another AI that was Rick Rolling people. Not intentionally...it just scraped enough data from the Internet that had enough RickRolling that the algorithm spit it out.

I seem to recall there was an eating disorder organization that replaced human phone councilors with AI. AI, trained on the internet as it was, started giving anorexic teens diet tips, to help them lose more weight.

AI is running into a recursive garbage in-garbage out problem. It’s largely trained on web scraping, but now a lot of Google search results are AI generated. So it’s creating its own reality, and the hallucinations, rather than getting fixed as AI develops, are getting worse.

I follow the stock ticker NANC, which is pinned to the reported investments of Democratic congresspeople. As of this morning, their top investment is NVIDA Corp., a chip manufacturer whose price has soared due to its product being widely used with AI. So don’t expect any legal guardrails for AI anytime soon.

I created an AI bot last year. Y’all could go to Poe, an AI aggregator, and create your own. There’s nothing like creating an AI bot to remove most respect for them.

Assembly not required - IKEA is going to start a marketplace for second-hand furniture of theirs - so you can buy assembled pieces and don't need the little wrenches.

IKEA is going to start a marketplace for second-hand furniture of theirs

So...Craigslist?

Craigslist around here has gone very downhill, and I can no longer find a critical mass of Used IKEA (I guess it's all on FB Marketplace or something), so I welcome our new Used IKEA overlords.

There was a news story - from Sweden a couple of years ago - that someone called the police because of yelling, swearing, things going bump in the night - and when they checked it turned out to be. yes, IKEA assembly. So it sounds like it's as bad for Swedes as for Americans.

Republican weirdness level raised: Seemingly, RFKjr found a dead whale on the beach, but its head off with a chainsaw, strapped it to the roof of his car and drove down the highway. He went zipping down dripping blood, whale oil and whale offal as he went (this is from his daughter). Disgusting, sharing it with other drivers, the passengers cut air holes in plastic bags in an attempt to make it less disgusting. Environmental groups are now calling for an investigation. (And, somewhere, Mitt Romney is laughing)

Man... I wonder where that brain worm came from...

RFKjr has this and the bear story but the GOP is freaking out because Tim Walz posted about his dog and him and his dog at a dog park and the dogs in the two pictures WEREN'T the same DOG! Walz Was LYING about his DOG!

or you know he took a picture of a dog at the dog park.