if anyone wants to laugh at AI, a friend of mine googled "new york time" and got an "AI summary" claiming 7:14 pm (wildly wrong, it was about 2 pm) and then 40 minutes later I tried and also got 7:14 pm

@0xabad1dea Can confirm: Am in New York, and it hasn't been 7:14 pm for at least five hours.

UPDATE: The above is no longer true. I will leave it as originally posted for posterity.

it's especially funny/sobworthy that looking up the current time in various locations has worked perfectly well on google for years, because someone took the time to design, code and test a useful feature. but that's not Number Go Up enough so now we have the all-knowing video card that says 7:14 pm

@0xabad1dea it thought maybe I was asking about the newspaper. One of the “people also search for” was “What time is it in New York now?” And it said it was 11:50pm.

@0xabad1dea No, no, you don't understand! It's AI, it should learn on its own how to figure out the timezones!

@0xabad1dea lol

@0xabad1dea Hm, I need to fix my clocks. They're all wrong.

@0xabad1dea unbelievable, I just tried it now - it also tells me it's Tuesday over there

@Catarina @0xabad1dea Maybe we did reach singularity - it's just not technological, but the spacetime kind?

@0xabad1dea One of my colleagues got a very obvious typo in a piece of AI-generated code (like a cat had gotten at the keyboard halfway through) followed by a comment stating what the code *should have been*. Wtf? 🙄

@NudelnAlDente this happens because AI output doesn't have any ability to "backspace", only to add more output. So once something weird happens, even if it successfully notices, it can only apologize further down the message and not repair the message

@0xabad1dea can confirm. Perpetual 7:14 p.m. in New York.

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The AI is on Quaaludes. The number is on the tablet.

I can only imagine what the AI would come up for 'New York Minute'.

@0xabad1dea Natural intelligence - if present - appears to have the clear advantage of natural flexibility & lateral thinking ability.

@0xabad1dea i still wonder why this is. If its a statistical median i would expect something like 10:10 no? Or is it just the date as time.
Anyway asking a statistics model for such a problem seems kind a wierd to me.

@petrisch the fact that the date was 7/14 didn’t even occur to me; it’s possible that it made such a hilarious confusion, but also possible that it’s just checking a web page that was last cached at 7:14 pm or that something interesting once happened at 7:14 in New York and many news articles mentioned the time

fwiw it’s currently telling me it’s 3:11 pm (the correct time is 2:59 am) and also, as a bonus, letting me know that Aruba is in the same time zone ??

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I just tried it, and it even tried to explain why it's 1PM there.
It was 2:05 at the time of asking.

As a bonus it tried to doxx me, so I had to redact my current location from the answer.

@dekkia it just gave me a similar answer but with Aruba, which it wants me to know is in the same time zone as New York. Aruba is technically in the same country as me, but on the other side of the world