u/iceWarriorWho

Is there an objective AI?

I have an hour commute to work so I would normally have Grok in voice mode to chat with and bounce ideas, but since late April I hit the new voice cap of "200 questions" or "15 minutes" or "50 interactions" after literally asking 2 questions. So my search began for another.

ChatGPT sounds like a valley barista trying to educate me on the myriad of made up genders; Perplexity is too robotic to answer a direct question yet unable to count to 3 (probably of the Acolyte fandom) and then there is Claude.

I have used Claude for about a week on topics of mysticism and spirituality and it's pretty decent. The voice limits last about an hour and half so it's pretty much my commute to and from work done (there are a few dead zones along the way where coverage drops).

It was truly well and good until this morning's drive.

For some reason that line from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda came up in my head where Beka is asking Rommie about her look and she statea that "Andromeda was a Fenician princess and noone knows what they looked like so she threw a bunch of parameters in her matrix and spat out the look of Lexa Doig".

So I asked Claude to tell me about Andromeda, the Phonician princess from Ancient Greek legend (Who for context lived in what is present day Palestine), and what do you think I got as a response?

Ethiopian princess.

And it took 25 minutes of prodding and questioning and forcing it to walk me through step by step for it to reveal that its primary reference source is Wikipedia. Only asfter I forced it to look at Encyclopedia Britannica did it admit that it was wrong, that Ethiopia is thousands of miles away and that it had nothing to do with Andromeda nor Phonicians.

Is there ANY AI/LLM that is not complete, utter editorialized leftist trash?!?

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u/iceWarriorWho — 1 day ago

Pitcher vs Dispenser

I've had the 11L dispenser for about 5 years or so.

It worked great for about 3 of them until it started showing bad numbers.

The water in my house generally shows up at 115-125 ppm from the tap. After filtering however it came down to about 80 ppm on the dispenser. I thought the filter was faulty so I opened a brand new one and it was still showing up 80 ppm.

I ended up buying a pitcher and using the original filter and the water came out at 0 ppm. I've since washed the dispenser, every part of it, sanitized it and put it together and it still comes up worse than it should. I thought maybe unfilteres water was leaking in around the filter, but nope.. filter locks in water tight.

Just to test it out once again, as my pitcher filter is due for replacement (13 ppm), I ran the filtered water through the dispenser and it came out at 35 ppm.

Why would this be happening? Is it the plastic of the dispenser aging out or what?

Would appreciate any clues to this mystery.

u/iceWarriorWho — 4 days ago