From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 1/16/26 6:08 AM, Creon wrote:   
   > At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:46:38 -0500, Noah Sombrero  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:41:16 +0000, Creon  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:14:17 -0800, dart200   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 1/15/26 7:19 PM, Dude wrote:   
   >>>>> "Apple will not be among the tech leaders in this golden age of AI.   
   >>>>> That   
   >>>>   
   >>>> more like a fool's golden age   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm sure many said the same about the printing press.   
   >>   
   >> That does not mean that every supposed new tech idea is equivalent to   
   >> the printing press.   
   >   
   > So perhaps a grading system should be devised, with   
   > "printing press" as a unit of measure.  Would probably   
   > need to be logarithmic to measure the "quake" left in worldwide   
   > phenomena.   
   >   
   > I think generative "AI" is as important as desktop publishing,   
   > but not as important as the development of the worldwide Net.   
      
   we're still in the dark ages of computing before we've actually decided   
   that cooperating to build total knowledge systems is better than   
   haphazardly doing whatever the fuck we can scrabble together while   
   locked in uncooperative competition with each other...   
      
   AI as a search tool is mostly just making up for us not doing that,   
   except it's more unreliable because it's prone to just make up shit.   
      
   just yesterday i was pulled into skimming an article by an AI summary   
   where this logician i follow was quoted saying AI was useless in terms   
   of math development. guy wasn't actually quoted in the article.   
   curiously he did actually say that in a different article... but not the   
   article that was summarized. it's just really fucking bizarre error a   
   human summary would not make.   
      
   it's still a total toss up to me whether using gemini or googling it   
   with "reddit" after is more useful to me.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >>> BTW: guess what I've done with "AI"?  You're soaking in it!   
      
   idk what u mean   
      
   >   
   > Relax, it's a tk/Perl program.  I call it "newscamel", because   
   > Perl's mascot is a camel.   
   >   
      
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