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AI NOT I

hank
edited February 2023 in Off-Topic
Bing is using some sort of artificial intelligence which it is promoting on its search site. For the life of me I’m not seeing much beyond what a regular Google search delivers. This morning I asked it how much a standard DirecTV service costs - as I was trying to put my monthly Hulu billing into some sort of perspective.

Here’s the top answer the Bing AI produced:

“DIRECTV currently lists its TV access fee at $7.00 a month. If you have several receivers in your home, then you’ll need to pay $7.00 for each of them. DIRECTV also has a more expensive access fee for receivers that provide HD, DVR, and Whole-Home services … “

LOL - When I dropped DirecTV two years ago they were already gouging me $125-$130 a month for a pretty basic package that didn’t even include DVR. And their monthly charges had been rising by about $15 every year. (They even had a technician install an in-home blocking device to stop me from using my own VCR after learning I had one.).

AI not very intelligent. (Better hope your physician isn’t relying on one for your diagnosis!)

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  • Derf
    @hank: recent interview on CBS morning contained this new search method. Sometimes the search returned what you received. Not what you were expecting ! I believe it did mention that searching for the dark side, porn , wouldn't return anything. I believe this is the link, but one needs to login, start an account, which I'm not going to do.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/video/microsoft-ceo-artificial-intelligence-will-lead-to-more-job-satisfaction/#x
  • CrashCrash
    Bing belongs to Microsoft. Microsoft has always been buggy crap. And Bing has become a convenient hijack tool for the mud-licking criminal pig farts we call hackers. Bing is MALWARE. Get rid of it, if you can. I couldn't. So I moved to an alternative browser altogether.
    https://brave.com/download/

    A.I. is vomitus.
    Direct TV is last week's bile.
    Better luck with Hulu. We have Roku.
  • catch22catch22
    In any or either case, they are all tracking what you visit or watch. A traditional TV over-the-air antenna may be your only saving grace.....but, you won't find Bloomberg.
  • CrashCrash
    yup.
  • Sven
    If you don’t want to be track of where you browse, you can choose “private mode” in Safari or “Incognito window” in Google Chrome browsers; they do nor leave your browser history. Additional, one can subscribe to a VPN provider that will protect your ISP ID. It is best to use both when you work with sensitive personal information such as finance, medical, and others.

    @Crash, Bing is the search engine in Microsoft Edge browser in their OS. It functions the same as Google as your search engine. Behind all these search engines, various AIs are used and Bing is trying to leapfrog Google’s AI.
  • CrashCrash
    @Crash, Bing is the search engine in Microsoft Edge browser in their OS. It functions the same as Google as your search engine. Behind all these search engines, various AIs are used and Bing is trying to leapfrog Google’s AI.
    Yes, Bing is Microsoft. Somehow, the Bad Guys find it very easy to employ Bing rather than Yahoo's Search tool or any of the others. This is known. They've poisoned Bing, so that anyone who's AWARE of this will steer clear of it--- because it often gets connected to the rest of the evil shit the hackers want to plant in your computer. I had been using Google Chrome. Then suddenly, BING took over, by way of a separate malware crappy "search" tool called "Search Marquis." Google could not manage to keep it out of my computer, and the attempt to eliminate the new feces that arrived into the guts of my computer did not work, either. Solution: use a different browser, and in particular, a browser which is not world-famous and is therefore less apt to be targeted by the low-life sub-human criminal scum-pig-hackers.
  • Sven
    @Crash, I use PC at work but there are firewalls protecting the system, but often at the expense of quick response. Supposedly, Windows OS10 and beyond have rewrote their codes to follow Apple (I am not a computer expert) that hardened their security. Regardless, PC has the lion market share of computers, thus they get hacked often. Mac can be hacked but at lesser degree.

    We gave up on PC at home and virus attack occurred often. Right now we are using Mac computers while subscribing to a VPN provider.
  • CrashCrash
    +1. Mac here, too.
  • hank
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  • Sven
    We have been lucky with our Mac so far with Safari browser. I only use Edge ant work but it is really clunky.

    Updated to Mac Mini computer with M1 processor so It runs the largest Monterey OS.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    @Sven- I've run a "fleet" of four older Mac Minis for many years now. Firefox browser and DuckDuckGo for search engine. No Google. No Microsoft. No hacks at all. But I'm very careful where I go and what I look at. (Being 83 years old helps a lot with that.) :)

    Before the Minis we had a fleet of G5s. No problems there either. I still use the G5s for music storage/playback (20,600 tracks/1.5TB) and some very old OS9 CAD and ClarisWorks programs, but no internet exposure.

    We're talking at least thirty years here with no problems.
  • Sven
    That is fantastic! I got to give that a try. We are still using the older mini for storing music, video, and photo files - 8 TB and growing. Learned to make high resolution video recently.
  • Derf
    "@Sven- I've run a "fleet" of four older Mac Minis for many years now. Firefox browser and DuckDuckGo for search engine. No Google. No Microsoft. No hacks at all. But I'm very careful where I go and what I look at. (Being 83 years old helps a lot with that.) "

    Well put @Old_Joe : +1
  • hank
    edited February 2023
    ”The software giant launched the new Bing last week, promising a new kind of search in which people pose questions to the search engine in natural language … In some cases, the search engine seems to become unhinged and express anger and love. Microsoft says long interactions are causing some of the unwanted behavior”

    Sounding more and more like humans …

    (Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal 2/17/2023)
  • CrashCrash
    nope. not even tempted.
  • hank
    edited February 2023
    If you haven’t tried the new BING search engine you might want to try typing in a complete question. Not bad. Better than Google. I haven’t bothered with their app yet which also allows submitting questions by voice. Hear it’s very good. A slight mention somewhere in Barrons this week suggesting that “competition” from other search engines using AI is hurting Alphabet (Google’s parent).

    FWIW - I use DuckGo for more sensitive searches / web activity.

    NO - No “creepy crawley” things have yet bitten my ipad as a result of using Bing. Run anti-virus and use common sense.
  • CrashCrash
    edited March 2023
    Bing: I never wanted it, and it just showed up. Installed by criminal skunk-farts. Which, if truth be told, sucks ass. Somehow, Bing is too useful for the criminals to leave alone and take a pass on. The fault lies with Microsoft. I guess they just don't care. This has been known for years and years. BTW, Bing is technically not a virus, but malware. Anti-virus looks right past it, along with whatever other trojan horse crap came along with it. I had to switch browsers.

    Switched from Avast to Avira. It works better! And I run an anti-malware thing, too.
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