ai and us

[jonnymcenroe]

Had a shower thought today about AI and the site. Unsure how many active moderators we currently have and how much time they have to tidy up. Is anyone au fait with bots and ai who could help clean up the junk threads and collate things such as the "show us your..." threads for example?

A little code here and there and a friendly site bot to help moderate? I know we self police things such as "add a price or this thread will be locked" couldn't we outsource this job so we can get on with trading and or chatting?

Is this already happening?

 

[jonnymcenroe]

This should be in the sticky site suggestions (issues) thread!

 

[jonnymcenroe]

No one?!

On a Sunday!?

 

[jonnymcenroe]

@RBmodbot please move this to the site suggestions thread thank you machine learned overseer

 

[MattiThundrrr]

There's a bot at another forum I frequent. It is really annoying. If we implement it here, I feel the forum will gain all the joys of automated telephone systems

 

[LumPi Panda]

Two things I have learned from AI just this week.


"The hottest day on record in the UK before this year was in 1911."
This is bollocks. My brother was born in 1976 on what was then the hottest day on record in the UK. This record has been beaten at least once in the last few years, but I couldn't tell you exactly when because it wasn't my brother's birthday.

"Michael Stipe, lead singer of the band R.E.M. is dead."
I remember hearing in an interview years ago that he could crack a surprising number eggs into a pan at the same time, so googled "Michael Stipe eggs" during a conversation with a mate of mine who is a fan of the band. I was surprised to hear that he was both dead and still giving interviews. I thought the egg thing was a skill, but self-raising Lazarus takes the prize.

To be honest, I'm not that impressed with AI.

It would appear that AI "learns" by just looking stuff up on the internet and regurgitating it at you in a slightly awkward grammatical style, like that bloke you know at work who's into bitcoin.

Either that or the whole "Twitter AI starts calling itself Techno-Hitler" debacle, like that other bloke you know at work who's into bitcoin.

So, please, don't bother with introducing AI into the only bit of the internet that seems to be even remotely like Actual Reality.

Also, I never did find out how many eggs it was... bloody internet.

 

[novocaine]

Two things I have learned from AI just this week.


"The hottest day on record in the UK before this year was in 1911."
This is bollocks. My brother was born in 1976 on what was then the hottest day on record in the UK. This record has been beaten at least once in the last few years, but I couldn't tell you exactly when because it wasn't my brother's birthday.

"Michael Stipe, lead singer of the band R.E.M. is dead."
I remember hearing in an interview years ago that he could crack a surprising number eggs into a pan at the same time, so googled "Michael Stipe eggs" during a conversation with a mate of mine who is a fan of the band. I was surprised to hear that he was both dead and still giving interviews. I thought the egg thing was a skill, but self-raising Lazarus takes the prize.

To be honest, I'm not that impressed with AI.

It would appear that AI "learns" by just looking stuff up on the internet and regurgitating it at you in a slightly awkward grammatical style, like that bloke you know at work who's into bitcoin.

Either that or the whole "Twitter AI starts calling itself Techno-Hitler" debacle, like that other bloke you know at work who's into bitcoin.

So, please, don't bother with introducing AI into the only bit of the internet that seems to be even remotely like Actual Reality.

Also, I never did find out how many eggs it was... bloody internet.

AI as we know it is a scrapper, it takes the information available to it and forms a response based on the data with the most "correct" answers.
unfortunately as more people rely on AI, the data it finds is generated by AI, so if it was wrong, and loads of places share that wrong "fact" it becomes right according to AI.

what we've learned at work is that AI is fine, but needs a confirmation check for bias due to this.

 

[markoc]

Check page 4 item 17b of the Cyberdyne Systems user manual. It states that AI is going to take over the world be the solution to all of mankind's struggles.

Item 17c then states - "muahahahaha"

Item 17d is an annotation - "item 17c added by Skynet post edit of 17b".

 

[highlandsflyer]

The internet already destroyed the world. AI is the icing on top.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

A sampling of what AI "adds" to that other forum:
"Hey (forum user), that El Jefe looks fantastic, and it’s great to hear you love it even more as a single speed! The way you describe it cornering "like it's on rails" has me curious. What gear ratio did you land on for the trails out in Breck? Sharing that might get some other SS riders to chime in with their setups"
Yeah, when I hear about a bike's handling, it really makes me think about gear ratios...

"Hey (forum user), that's an interesting route idea you've got for connecting Lost Lake to General Creek. To help folks decide if the juice is worth the squeeze, what kind of terrain are you hoping to find on the descent? Sharing a bit more about your preferred riding style will probably help others give you some solid beta."
Aye, solid beta is where it is at. You gotta get the all the beta Especially lame how it tries to throw in the cool slang.

"That looks like a fun ride with your daughter, Belle! I've definitely had those days where I'm feathering the brakes too much on a new trail and bog down on the next climb.

What part of the trail felt the trickiest for keeping your momentum? Adding that detail might help others here chime in with some advice"
Now the computer thinks it has riding experience to share? We don't even need human riders on the forum anymore!

As you can see, the bot adds literally nothing to the conversation, basically just prompts users to post more. It is quite annoying because now it is waking up a bunch of old dead threads by questioning users who posted years ago. Ironically, most threads it posts on die, nobody wants to engage with the thing.

@john if retrobike is considering adding ai to the forum, please read this. Mtbr has one and it sucks.