In the past 5 days, the media has flipped and turned against AI, saying it doesn’t work and we are deluding ourselves. Seriously. Saw several TV news reports, and several print stories all questioning the AI thesis.
The great AI delusion is falling apart
Even my experience turned south as I used Grok AI to try and plan a trip – and the errors it made were staggering. Given constraints of no more than 8-9 hours of driving and no more than 400-500 miles maximum in a day, it gave me a route with the first day having 257 miles (but claiming it was 400 miles), and the last day it said was 480 miles in 9 hours – but was actually a 962 mile route that would take far longer than 9 hours. I tried several times to get it to produce appropriate responses but each time, it failed.
This turnabout is reminiscent of the media’s years long promotion of EVs, only to, in the fall of 2023, turn against EVs, suddenly finding lots of alleged problems. It is if the media is the one that is deceiving us.
