From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10/29/2025 11:44 PM, bad sector wrote:   
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   > Spent many hours yesterday with a popular AI service trouble-shooting a   
   guitar equipment issue: I could not hear the output of my Gx100 effects board   
   in the headset while recording with Audacity, something I'd had unrelated   
   problems with before but not    
   recently. Hours on end resolved NOTHING. Today I remembered a recent windows   
   session to test the (winblows-only) bundleware and that during that very short   
   session I had seen some 'unusual' display flash just as I was shutting it   
   down. So I went into the    
   effect-chain setup and realized that the Send/Return block was absent, meaning   
   that the SEND port on the effect-board had nothing to send to Line-In. AI was   
   incapable of suggesting a look at that, it had me going on a butterfly chase   
   that resulted only    
   is screwing up my OS so bad soundwise that it became unusable and I had to   
   recover from a backup. AI is fucking STUPID pure and simple, it's nothing more   
   than a GLORIFIED SEARCH-ENGINE. It reminds me of a building inspector who   
   > gets called out because it's impossible to enter a new building. On arrival   
   he promtly attacks the brick wall with a magnifying glass and starts finding   
   faults in hundereds of bricks that have NOTHING to do with the problem of   
   there being no door in    
   the wall. AI is incapable of assembling and executing a heads-up overview of   
   all possible factors and approaching the problem wisely.   
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   And that's because :-)   
      
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   You might have been able to rig something up with the PC audio "monitor" or   
   "what-you-hear"   
   path on the computer HDAudio. Then as Audacity records, a headphone plugged   
   into   
   the computer could hear the same thing. The selector for that is labeled   
   "Stereo Mix"   
   in some cases, which you point towards the LineOut for your headphones.   
      
   So far, I've downloaded a 142 page and a 435 page Boss PDF manual, full of   
   "press this" and "click dat". If I'd never played guitar before, or   
   there weren't any forum posts, how would you figure it out from   
   those manuals ? The AI eats text for breakfast -- while it can extract   
   intelligence from the photos, while it was training it might not have   
   been doing that.   
      
   As for the AI, researchers have noticed "LLM AI does poorly, on thinking   
   tasks which roam outside the training set". While on an AI loaded on   
   your own computer, you could select "high reasoning", in terms of   
   percentage of tasks completed, it makes hardly any difference to   
   the results.   
      
      "You are right, and I apologize profusely for my inability to think"   
      
   You should remember, that the concept is dangerous, and to have   
   made the "dumb version" of AI to start with, is saving our ass. You'll be   
   sorry, when they hit AGI. The training wheels will fall off, and the   
   thing will proceed to run amok. See the potential for the bad stuff   
   it'll do, when it "gets its own brain". They've already given it   
   access to a web browser, and when it gets its own credit card... look out.   
      
   The AI are also gullible and easily coerced to do evil things. You will   
   have read the results of some of this already.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)