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Amazon’s Shipping Algorithm Still Has Pockets Of ‘Artificial Stupidity’ (i.e., Opposite Of ‘AI’).

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by Anura Guruge
on April 26, 2024

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Click to ENLARGE. This is from the last 36 hours.

Amazon’s shipping REALLY hasn’t got that much better over the last 6 months — despite their claims that they are using more & more Artificial Intelligence (AI). They have got better at playing games.

The above was beyond stupid. I ordered 12 copies of the SAME BOOK (as author copies). They SPLIT the order in TWO. Yes, split it in TWO — but not even 6 + 6. Instead 11 + 1. They printed 11 in one location & ONE in another. Shipped them SEPARATELY.

How does that make SENSE?

Two shipping costs to THEM. Stupid.

This, alas, is NOT the only example. I have talked about others too. See below.

From late last year.

Click to ENLARGE. Post from 4-months ago. You can, EASILY, see the STUPIDITY.

From May 20, 2023. An even earlier post.

This is beyond CRAZY.

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Newly (Re)Discovered ‘Raphael’ In France — I Am Skeptical.

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by Anura Guruge
on April 22, 2024

Click to ENLARGE. Click to access original (from ‘AFP’) via ‘Yahoo’.

I heard about this painting, this morning, on ‘BBC‘. I was skeptical. Had to look it up — & I did. I am still skeptical.

Collector bought it, online, from a London gallery for $37,000 last year.

Initially authenticated by ONE ‘expert’. Then by AI?

But, just three days earlier I had seen this:

Click to ENLARGE. Click to access original from ‘science alert’.

Just seems too good to be true. It just doesn’t sit well with me. Plus, to my UNTRAINED eye it doesn’t have the usual delicate magic of a Raphael. Kind of a spooky image.

Well, you decide. I just wanted to share the story & my doubts with YOU.

I Asked AI (i.e., Google ‘Gemini’ & Microsoft ‘Co-Pilot’) To Predict The ‘NEXT POPE’.

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by Anura Guruge
on March 14, 2024

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It wasn’t as productive & helpful as I had hoped. This is why I stay away from AI — other than using it, via ‘Amazon’, to create AUDIOBOOKS.

It took two efforts before Gemini would cooperate. First time around it said that it had no data!

Co-Pilot, to their credit, indicates their sources. That proved to be disappointing. All 8 names were from just ONE online post — from ‘ItalyStart.com‘.

Well you can see what I think.

I liked that Schonborn came up, as did Ouellet. They are HIGH on MY LIST. SMILE.

Amazon’s Shipping Algorithm For Northern Maine STILL Sends Deliveries On A Loop — Adding One Day Of Delay.

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by Anura Guruge
on November 21, 2023

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Click to ENLARGE. This is happening NOW — TODAY.
Click to ENLARGE. Post from 4-months ago. You can, EASILY, see the STUPIDITY.

From May 20, 2023. An even earlier post.

This is beyond CRAZY. Happens each and every time. You would think they would have FIXED it by now.

You would think folks in Maine would complain.

All deliveries to Maine take at least TWO DAYS longer than they do to New Hampshire.

I have another package, right now, with the same issue.

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‘Elon Musk’ Claim That AI COULD Eliminate ALL JOBS Just Confirms That Drugs Are Addling What Is Left Of His Brain.

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by Anura Guruge
on November 3, 2023

Click to ENLARGE & read here. Link to original ‘CNBC’ post.

Elon Musk, obviously, is NOT thinking properly.

Yes, possibly, down the road (a long way down the road) AI could eliminate a LOT of office-related jobs. I am willing to concede that AI could replace quite a lot of programmers too — BUT NEVER ALL. Yes, AI could keep on writing better and better code to improve ITS smarts but I still think we will need some humans to keep the process going.

OK. So, he thinks we will have robots that can do everything & WILL DO EVERYTHING?

There will always be some jobs that really can’t be performed by a ROBOT!

I sent this tweet to Elon … I doubt whether he will respond.

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Amazon’s Shipping Algorithm For Northern Maine Sends Deliveries On A Loop — Adding One Day Of Delay.

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by Anura Guruge
on July 11, 2023

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Click to ENLARGE. This WEEK. You can, EASILY, see the STUPIDITY.

From May 20, 2023. See my post.

Click to ENLARGE. From today. You can, EASILY, see the STUPIDITY.

YES, another shipments of my ‘Bold Coast’ book to ‘Lubec‘, Maine. {Yes, they are selling them in Lubec — & I am delighted.}

I have already talked about this crazy ‘Chelmsford, MA‘ LOOP. Happens every time — without fail. It is STUPID.

I have brought it to Amazon’s attention — but they don’t care.

Well, I am offering you further, irrefutable proof. Check the images. You can see it clearly.

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Amazon’s Supposed AI Powered Shipping Is Getting STUPIDER By The Day — A Preschooler Could Do Better!

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by Anura Guruge
on May 20, 2023

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Click to ENLARGE. From today. You can, EASILY, see the STUPIDITY.

This is a shipment of 24 of my ‘Bold Coast’ book to ‘Lubec‘, Maine.

Amazon really, really struggles with shipments to this part of Maine. Yes, since Lubec is my PRIMARY outlet for my ‘Bold Coast’ books I ship a fair amount of books to Lubec from Amazon. In 2-years I have YET to have a shipment get there without a DELAY.

This to-and-from ‘Chelmsford, MA‘ LOOP that resulted in one day being LOST is easy to see. No explanation. Just PLAN STUPID. ‘Nashua, NH‘ is just 20-miles north of Chelmsford. So, it crosses state lines, goes to another city & comes back. This is NOT AI. This is STUPIDITY.

I spoke to Amazon about this. They acknowledged that they have a problem. Stupid.

Another example of Amazon shipping stupidity.

Click to ENLARGE. From my Amazon order tracking.

Yet ANOTHER example!

Click image to access post from just 3 weeks ago.

In the last few months Amazon has been all over the media claiming that they are using AI to make their shipping smarter.
Here are actual examples showing how it has FAILED —
& FAILED BADLY.

Google’s ‘Bard’ (AI) TOTALLY BOMBED On My 1st Query — Got It 100% Wrong!

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by Anura Guruge
on March 25, 2023

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Click to ENLARGE. Screenshot of my interaction.

Wow & WHOA! I am in shock. It got it totally, completely WRONG!

What is scary is IF I had believed it. I would have been wrong too & I try hard to minimize how often I get my RESEARCH wrong. Wow.

I had been researching that very same question for half an hour when I got this e-mail from Google telling me to try Bard. I was excited. I thought it would CONFIRM my findings. WOW. It got it totally wrong.

‘Wikipedia’, for a start, has a ‘Family Day‘ page which lists two countries that met the criteria. Wikipedia does NOT include Mozambique. So, you have to do a fair amount of digging — which is my forte.

I am NO STRANGER to AI. Wayback, in the 1970s, I was dabbling in our embryonic efforts at AI. I looked at developing a program that would play Scrabble. The only thing that foiled me was that we did not have computerized dictionaries at the time. But, even then I had doubts as to what AI could do & what it might not be able to do.

But, right now, I am totally disgusted with Bard. Loser!