A group of ill-prepared climbers had to be rescued because Gemini told them climbing Mt. Shasta would only take 8 hours.
I had a funny experience with some friends the other weekend. Visited them, they had family visit und we went for a hike with two other friends of them, a couple.
Not Mt. Everest, just a scenic area of Northern Germany. The other guy just asked his Mercedes car AI to guide us to a parking lot nearby. When we left the car, he joked that we should have our phones charged in case we get lost. We all laughed - he is from the area and had grown up some 40 kilometers away.
Well, after some five hours of hiking, it was time to return… and it turned out that nobody of us really knew where the two cars were, and where to return to. Six people looking at their phone things and scratching their heads.
It turned out that the car also had connected service which would text its location to a phone. But, well, the paid subscription for that service had ended.
We then got a physical, real map from a shop nearby and figured it out eventually. It was still good fun, and we had a good laugh.
But in a slightly different situation - being in the mountains with bad weather, one exhausted person, for example - it would not have been funny at all. It was such a weird situation, because normally when you go somewhere you have very a clear idea where you are, and where a safe return point is.
What I also find interesting is that there is no real clear line which knowledge is vital and what is inconsequential information. Our minds have evolved and exist only to protect our bodies and our life, and this permeates them.
Don’t even rely on it to plan inconsequential stuff, like an appliance purchase. It’ll hallucinate all kinds of crazy features it doesn’t have. I tried to use it to compare dishwasher models when I needed a new one. What a cluster fuck of wrong information and wasted time that was.
Wat? WHAT? Ive not climbed anything close to shasta, we dont even have peaks that high where i live but im much much more responsible when planning. Who even goes “uhh yeah 6 hours sounds about right” to a peak above 4k??? I mean sure i can climb 4000 meters elevation in 6 hours, thats about my pace but you also have to get down and i imagine those are not easy trails. All if this is so stupid especially since they were climbers cause tou are not just climbing that high randomly, youd give up much faster but that means these idiots climbed stuff successfully before which is insane.
I’m no climber, but I assume getting down the mountain is much quicker and easier because you can just roll.
It took them 16 hours just to reach the summit. That was already 7PM on August 30, way past the recommended turnaround time of 12PM
Not sure what kind of “climbers” they are, but I would have known a long time before then that their plans were going off the rails.
PSA: Don’t rely on AI
to plan anything that could put your life at risk… like a mountain climb - EngadgetPSA: Don’t
rely onAIto plan anything that could put your life at risk… like a mountain climb - Engadget
Honestly I hate AI with a burning passion. It’s the stupidest shit on earth. Except for these climbers.
Because it’s their own fucking fault. I don’t even think we can blame AI for this one.
well… Google is on board with this usage
https://www.theverge.com/tech/988355/mrbeast-google-partnership-gemini-fitbit
Wow this seems an jncredibly stupid show, and teenage viewers will believe it works as shown and not staged
Exactly, this is sooooo dangerous for the mentally damaged people that follow MrBeast
Good. Hopefully he dies out there because of it. He won’t, because it’s staged as hell but a man can dream.
- “Hey Google is this edible?” [showing an out of focus, blurry image]
- “This is definitely edible, you can feast on that”
- “It is bitter, are you sure about that?”
- “Yes, it’s definitely edible, you can eat that”
- “I am dizzy, and by comparing pictures on a book it seems to be poisonous???”
- “You’re absolutely right! I accidentally confused that for another root. I will take note to do better next time”
[dies]
The steps of figuring out whether something is edible are worth learning and take about 3 weeks (or 3 days, depending on how much you care for the test subject)
that is the result of listening to corporations
Stupid humans tend to be the reason for a lot of the issues plaguing the planet.
People dying because they blindly followed the advice of an LLM is kind of like natural selection.
I assume the selection will become more rapid as the consequences of cognitive offloading begin to manifest.
Agreed. Honestly should let it happen. People that stupid will hurt us as a species.
Both things can be true
The slop did not account for the slope
(sorry)
Slippery slop
Sloppery slope
Ouch, way better than mine.
Darwin always wins
The article doesn’t mention it, but I sure hope they were billed for the rescue.
In my European country, mountain rescue is billed thousands of euro and it’s not free, if it was due to stupidity
I can’t imagine a 20 hour search+rescue being free in the land of the Free
This is actually an area that America is generally pretty good at i.e. rescues by the US Park Service are generally free, unless there’s obvious gross intelligence.
Personally, I would consider using AI to plan a trip for multiple people as gross negligence, but considering this current government’s position on AI, I suspect they weren’t charged a penny for it.
No, bad taxpayer! Bad!
How many drugs over what time-frame does one have to take to think this would be a good idea?
I despair at humanity.AI bros should do that more. If they do natural selection will kick in and take care of the problem for us.
