My father recently passed away. Everyone in the family is traveling to our “tradition family homestead” in Nova Scotia. I wanted to create a simple video slideshow using approx. 170 photos and background music for his memorial get-together. (He didn’t want a funeral or any ceremonies. He just wanted us to go out into Chedabucto Bay on my uncle’s lobster boat and toss his ashes there. I asked 3 AIs for recommendations for a simple slideshow maker that would generate a 15 minute slideshow from existing photos for free. They all recommended CapCut and… I can’t remember what the other one was. EVERY SINGLE INSTRUCTION provided by the AIs were WRONG. In detailed instructions, they often referred to options that did not exist, options that didn’t do what they described, and every time I responded with “That won’t work. There IS NO Save As option in the file menu.” Or something similar. Inevitably, for EVERY SINGLE MISTAKE it would apologize, and appeared to recognize that its constant errors were costing me both time and confidence. It always had some kind of long, drawn out excuse for why it was wrong, and would post an “alternate step” that inevitably either didn’t work, or worse, screw up my whole project to the point where I’d have to go right back to the beginning, erase everything I’d done and start all over. In EVERY case, I gave it the full official name and version number of the software, yet it still continued to reference non-existent items and functions in its detailed instructions. After a few hours, it had me searching for specific configuration files, suggested registry changes, etc. I got so frustrated, I switched to a different program, ignored the AI and just figured it out on my own. My question: If AI is getting all “smart” and scary, how can they all be SO CONSISTENTLY, FRUSTRATINGLY WRONG? I’m an Oracle PL/SQL developer/DBA. I’ve occasionally asked AIs TO EVALUATE (and correct) blocks of code I’d written. Again, in every case, running the “validated” (or straight AI written code, which ALWAYS generates Oracle errors,) I’d report the error to the AI and it would again profusely apologize and give a big long explanation (excuse) for why it got the previous answer wrong and make correction suggestions which, every single time, would fail for some other reason. I cycled through this process until 3:00am trying to get this project done because I listened to those stupid AIs. When I finally got fed up, I shut off the AI, googled some answers and just figured it out on my own. Took me 1/2 hour! What I don’t get is, why are billions (trillions?) of dollars going into these shoddy and unusable AI systems? (I tried Co-Pilot, ChatGPT and Grok.) They ALL had the same issues. My question is: WHY? Why are things available for public/corporate/government use that a) don’t work more than 20% of the time or worse, cause an irreversible problem that required a complete reset. (Grrrrrr) submitted by /u/OneSignal6465
Originally posted by u/OneSignal6465 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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