the bing AI thing is completely nuts, for all the obvious reasons, but one of the most mundane parts of it that really kills me is how it was designed to give the user so much extraneous horseshit. if you ask it what the weather will be like tomorrow it will give you three paragraphs about temperature units and at the end it will say "anyway click here for tomorrow's weather forecast" with a link to a standard bing search for "weather forecast tomorrow". it's the exact same process but with an intermediary step of "give you a bunch of bullshit you don't care about"
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who absolutely does not want an AI that tries to act like a human and be your buddy and shit. Everyone is always praising Alexa and Siri and whatnot for sounding like a person and I'm like "No actually I hate this just gimme a robot that gives me the shortest possible answer with not attempts to bond with me or act cute". Give my AI guide a tinny, echo-y voice and an avatar that looks like the robot from Forbidden Planet. I don't want to engage in small talk every time I do an online search, I already hate talking to random people I don't know! Robots were supposed to be better than humans because they're faster than more efficient, so don't make something that instead of just giving me the best answer starts guessing about what kind of music I like. I want no extras, no algorithms trying to predict my behavior, just do what I ask!