Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Artificial Unintelligence

If you ask me, I'm much smarter than AI. I'm also smarter than my phone and my computer and all those apps and Siri and Alexa and the whole lot of them. They think they know everything but they're wrong.

I'll give you an example. Not long ago, maybe an hour or so, I ordered a new pair of running shoes online. (Full disclosure -- I don't run anymore because I had a new hip installed nine years ago and my doc said that I could keep running if I wanted to but that I would "use up" my new hip and have to get it done again in like ten years, if I lived that long. So I walk in running shoes, okay?)

Anyway, I bought a pair and since then my computer and my phone have been flooded with ads for running shoes, including the brand I just bought. If AI is so smart, how come it can't grok that I don't need running shoes anymore since I just bought a new pair and maybe try to sell me some socks instead? Because it's dumb, that's why. It should be called AS for Artificial Stupidity.

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Artificial Unintelligence

If you ask me, I'm much smarter than AI. I'm also smarter than my phone and my computer and all those apps and Siri and Alexa and th...