Fuck AI

Well, that's a lousy article, but at least they brought up the 'nukes used floppy disks!' canard again.

I want the things in charge of world-ending devices to be reliable, understood, stable, tested, tried and boring as shit.

I do not want NukeGPT in charge of shit like that, I want some guy with a 8" floppy disk doing it instead.

Progress for the sake of progress is not always useful progress. It's motion, not movement.

Government should be slow to react, boring, stodgy, infested with well understood rules and regulation and only move to add new shit when someone can actually explain to a boring-ass career bureaucrat what the benefit to the new shit is.

Which, frankly, is probably the real issue: nobody can come up with a good use case that's not ungodly more expensive than the current solution is for limited or no actual improvement.

Not to say there's not room for improvement, though. The IRS comes to mind: I bet 99 times out of 100 the issues you've got a human dealing with COULD be dealt with by a reasonable chatbot, thus freeing up people to handle the things that are actually complicated.

You could also, for example, replace most of Congress with ChatGPT. It wouldn't be generating more gibberish responses and hallucinations than the current meat-puppets that are infesting it are coming up with now, and could even lead to a substantial savings!