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Are you a Grumpy older person?

TheCatWoman

I remember that tv program years ago called Grumpy Old Men, they did a Grumpy Old Women one too, it was so funny.

I'm definately grumpy and I'm getting grumpier the older I get, things make less sense, they keep bringing out "new and improved" things when the old ones were perfectly good. 

Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told, I don't need my fridge trying to comunicate with my mobile phone to make a shopping list to send to tesco for me! I want my toast well done on both sides and a knob to twiddle so as everyne can have toast the way they like it.

I'm grumpy about socks too, I mean why are the ankles so tight, even ones that are meant to be for diabetic people, has the nations ankles got narrower in the last 50 years?

Are you grumpy and what about?

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  • AI. So many managerial types have been brainwashed into thinking AI is necessary, when it is definitely not. AI used in spell checkers, just presents your habitual mistakes as being correct and search engines 'infected' with AI become no longer fit for purpose. On an online supermarket search engine, I was looking for something eatable, searched for it with its name and got a selection of wristwatches as the result. On another occasion I was searching for the antihistamine Loratidine, with the word 'Loratidine' (which is what it was called on the supermarket's own listing) and got 'nothing matches your search'!

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  • AI. So many managerial types have been brainwashed into thinking AI is necessary, when it is definitely not. AI used in spell checkers, just presents your habitual mistakes as being correct and search engines 'infected' with AI become no longer fit for purpose. On an online supermarket search engine, I was looking for something eatable, searched for it with its name and got a selection of wristwatches as the result. On another occasion I was searching for the antihistamine Loratidine, with the word 'Loratidine' (which is what it was called on the supermarket's own listing) and got 'nothing matches your search'!

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  • in reply to Martin

    AI is so unreliable. It has a terrible habit of taking random pieces of information out of context and filling in the blanks, resulting in kinda inaccurate information 

  • in reply to Martin

    I think search in general has been getting worse, at least on platforms like Google and Amazon, for a long while due to context overload from years and even decades of profiling of users. AI has just accelerated that process. I remember going through my Amazon recommendations on my original profile (from 1998) and marvelling at how it was still recommending stuff that I'd lost interest in back in the 2000s. It's amusing in a way, these companies have worked so hard to stop competitors, yet they've also sown the seeds of their own destruction at the same time.

    ASDA recently revamped their website, making searching for things a lot worse in the process. No more multi-item search for instance, so clearly none of the designers have ever used a shopping list. And some searches turn up completely different things depending on what words you use.