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Kelly's avatar

Got a bit spooked for a minute there given my name is Kelly and my daughter is Freya... But, panic over - my son is Harrison, not Finlay, so we can't be married after all! AI is so weird 😂

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F Ball's avatar

I’ve only just been to Kirkcaldy and I’m 55! It was ok!

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David Robinson's avatar

Nice to be reminded of the much missed Guns and Roses leather jacket. Had forgotten about the earring. Love to Kelly!

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James Aston's avatar

So, a vaguely alcoholic Scottish writer, marketing consultant and freelance copywriter, who sidelines in classic rock and suffers memory loss....

Are you absolutely sure about the Jack Daniels thing? It would explain a LOT of the inconsistencies. That, or the Matrix got its wires crossed.

If James Douglas doesn't appear in one of your books we'll be sorely disappointed... an autobiography perhaps? 🤭

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Daystech Support Services's avatar

Barry,you nailed it, I love your commentary!

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Pete MacKenzie's avatar

This is not the Skynet we were promised... unless it's a very frightening double bluff...

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Ged Reilly's avatar

Hey Barry how about a mini competition for what JD actually stands for?

Here's a few of my thoughts:

Just Dun

Job Done

Jesus Dei

Justice Defender

Jack Doodoo 💩

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Mark's avatar

I creased up, gotta stop reading Barry's writing while I'm at work. Gotta start working come to think of it. Hey, since when have I used the word "Gotta"?

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Susan Greene's avatar

Further proof that AI is just a glorified search engine with serious flaws. This post needs to go viral!

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Catherine Fravalo's avatar

Very amusing. Reminds me of what a student submitted in an literature essay, almost entirely plagiarised and about a totally different book by the same author (with recurring characters , it has to be said so... maybe that was a little 'correct' still)

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thisaintkansas's avatar

You make me laugh so much... your posts make my day 😂😂

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Daystech Support Services's avatar

I agree, they make my day too!

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David Robertson's avatar

You maybe missed a trick? Colossal clusterfuck of craziness/chaos. Okay, I like alliteration. I laughed my head off, got superglue so I am okay, that was great.

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Rob H's avatar

I name you James Douglas and I collect my 50 quid.

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Fraser Robert Kelly's avatar

Excellent article in the times last week about just this.

A different AI that simply made up stuff when asked for details on the writer.

Hallucination is a huge problem in AI-or to use a colloquial term-it talks shite to fill in the gaps in what it has read(which also might be wrong).

Mirrors various human psychiatric conditions where the patient simply makes up gaps in memory caused their substance abuse or other illnesses -often organic brain conditions.

These psychosis’s result in lies or guesses being used to fill the gap.

In the article in The times,the writer scolded the AI and it apologized !

Said it didn't want to let the writer down, so guessed where it didn't know.

Hilarious-till you recall that this stuff is in financial tech,medical tech and so on.

The folks used to spot and correct these hallucinations(as they are cuddly called), earn around 4 USD an hour(I live in Asia and see these jobs often advertised. This is about double the RN wage here.

So not quite lithium mines for cobalt-but not exactly a splendid aproach to commerce.

As for being called kelly-it’s my surname and working all over the place,I have had various versions of my name used.

In Chinese's areas it’s your surname first-so I am kelly Fraser .

In Singapore they weren’t sure so I usually got robert kelly Fraser .

Here where I am now i n Asia- they call me Sir Fraser, its a local polite way of using your given name here. (though cant remember the queen hitting me on shoulder with a sword)

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Mynameis's avatar

Maybe he got you mixed up with James T Kirk! William Satner released an album and he wrote a book or two!

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Katy's avatar

I'm also 46, and have also never been to Kirkcaldy. Having checked the map and realised it's east, that explained everything. Far too close to Edinburgh for comfort!

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