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"Oh him? That my emotional support hobbit."

"Uh huh. And what he got?"

"That's my hobbit's emotional support hobbit."

"And I suppose those two are also emotional support hobbits as well?"

"No, of course not. Those two are my emotional distress hobbits."

".....?"

anyone else think about how gentle Washington was with Caboose, so unlike the way Church treated him, and how much that probably influenced the way Tucker treated Caboose after Chorus? anyone else ever think about how having Washington around probably reframed so much of how Tucker viewed Caboose? like how under duress Washington might mix up Tucker and Carolina due to their armor color and his memory issues, not unlike how Caboose used to mix up Church and Washington after Sidewinder. or when Washington tells Tucker about his friend Agent Iowa, and the cognitive issues he suffered after an air circulation problem with his armor, and Tucker has to remember that Caboose had a similar issue--what they'd all very lightheartedly referred to as 'the breath-holding competition'. or the several examples Carolina and Washington would have of the AI fragments causing problems for them and several of their former teammates.

on the other hand...

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Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.