From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 1/16/26 11:05 AM, Creon wrote:   
   > At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:31:12 -0800, dart200   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > I'm reading you with my newsreader that I wrote mostly   
   > with "vibe coding".   
      
   let me know when it does something that hasn't been implemented 1000   
   times over by now   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Relax, it's a tk/Perl program.  I call it "newscamel", because   
   >>> Perl's mascot is a camel.   
   >>>   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
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