Category Archives: Artificial Subintelligence

Is “AlterA.I.” smart or stupid? It’s Simple Test …

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Backstory for this post here is that I set up a daily Google email alert over a decade ago for any stories concerning global warming, and for some reason on March 25th, that alert system plopped in Massachusetts Merrimack College professor Dan Sarofian-Butin’s “I’m A Professor. I No Longer Know What My Job Is” RealClearEducation website article about the apparent takeover of artificial intelligence in classroom teaching situations. Unfortunately, I deleted the whole email alert before reading his article, so I don’t remember what the climate-related tagline was for the article. I discovered in a two-days-later Google email alert that most likely its alleged “A.I.” robot program strangely selected Prof Sarofian-Butin’s article as a global warming story the same way it did with another RealClearEducation article result – despite how both pieces don’t even mention global warming at all. Chalk up Google’s strange inclusions there as one more indicator that A.I. is not half as intelligent as it’s portrayed to be. Nevertheless, Prof Sarofian-Butin’s article contained a gem quote from a student who’d used an A.I. system as a means to get more insight about one of his lessons. Uhhh, yeah, that system, which then reminded me that I should do something with what I gleaned a few months earlier out of the “AlterAI” system, which a friend initially thought might actually be an unbiased intelligent system.

It is not. A simple test proves that true. Using its one-time trial demo option, I asked “AlterAI” two questions, and copied its answers verbatim (including its overuse of asterisks). Watch this:  Continue reading →

Google’s “Artificial Intelligence Overview” – on ‘Industry Disinfo Evidence,’ trust its info as far as you can throw it

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Much ado these days with people thinking “A.I.” is some kind of all-encompassing savior to make life easier. Just do a generic Google search of “A.I. can help with” and watch the system fill in the last words with a whole range of situations … with Google A.I.’s own automatically generated input right at the very top, where its handy helpful little links in its “Show More” section to expand what it offers. All as though “A.I.” is benign, soulless and without political bias.

Speaking of Google searches, I’ve been using its basic system almost exclusively for over a decade, since that system clearly head & shoulders above any other search engine – you just have to know how to circumvent its biased results by doing boolean searches to prompt results it might not want the public to know about. It’s how I discovered exactly what the Ozone Action environmental group was, and who its staff were. But in May 2024, Google began adding its ‘AI option’ to its search methods menu. I’ve avoided it like the plague, knowing and proving already just months earlier that at least some forms of A.I. had no intelligence whatsoever. For this blog post, however, I’ll actually look into Google’s “A.I. Overview” for the very first time.  Watch this —

“Who discovered the fossil fuel industry memos with the phrase Reposition Global Warming as Theory (Not Fact)? What is their importance?” Continue reading →

Has A.I. Gotten Smarter About the Namesake of my Blog?

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Short answer: no. Just short of a year ago, I described my experiment to see what Google’s new “Gemini.ai” system could put out on the man, having previously tried an experiment with the ChatGPT system. In those two experiments, give GeminiAI credit for not veering into the brick wall mistake that ChatGPT did, falsely attributing Ross Gelbspan with a Pulitzer Prize win that he never actually received in any form. As I showed in my just-prior blog post, there is a difference between dutifully regurgitating what people feed you, and doing the heavy lifting to find out if what they tell you is actually true.

There are new A.I. systems out there now that you can ask questions. So, let’s first see where GeminiAI is still not particularly bright, and then let’s see what two other systems can tell us about the late Ross Gelbspan, since his work and his words forms the basis of the accusations in the very current “ExxonKnew” lawsuits. Continue reading →

Artificial Dodgey Intelligence — the Gelbspan ‘undeniable truth’ skid

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There was much ado about Google’s “Gemini” A.I. driving over the ‘woke bias’ cliff a few weeks back, prompting a pseudo-apology from Google about their system “missing the mark.” Well, set their illustration creation ‘intelligence’ aside for a while; is the thing probably dodgey on its text information-generating angle as well?

Sorta. Watch this: Continue reading →

A. – somewhat lacking in – I. “Exposing the Influence: Skeptic Climate Scientists and Fossil Fuel Funding”

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As I’ve said many times here at GelbspanFiles, no matter where you go in the angles of narratives from prominent people about ‘liars-for-hire scientists on the payroll of Big Coal & Oil’ you’ll see the accusations are only separated by three degrees or less from Ross Gelbspan’s beloved accusation which launched his second career. Add “Artificial Intelligence” to that list of prominent accusers. At the end of this post, I’ll point out a bigger problem with this development. Continue reading →