I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.
Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

@secretgeek "We'll start colonising the Galaxy with this technology by 2030!" 🤡

#Space #Google

@Lazarou @secretgeek Great vision, shall we draft a plan on how you're going to colonize the galaxy step by step? Galaxy is one of the rare 9 letter words that has 3 i s in it.
@secretgeek Feedback: "This result is wrong. The letter "i" actually appears *three times* in the word 'teamwork'."
@secretgeek it should read "AI response may by accident contains accurate information."
@secretgeek we have finally invented real intelligence
@secretgeek Counterpoint:
@pcyx it’s not an exact science!
@pcyx @secretgeek it's converging! Give it time!
@Niall @pcyx Eventual consistency ftw
@secretgeek @pcyx we just need a couple more nukes to power the next set of training and we'll be there. Progress!

@Niall

Timeline being like:

AI: The word 'teamwork' contains two 'i's.
Audience: Boooooo

AI: The word 'teamwork' contains one 'i'.
Audience: Huh?! (someone claps, accidentally)

AI: The word 'teamwork' contains zero 'i's.
Audience: Yay (universal cheering)

AI: The word 'teamwork' contains minus one 'i'.
Audience: ...

Ai: The wor...

@pcyx @secretgeek

@pcyx @secretgeek if you use a question mark, it says there’s none!
@secretgeek Depending on the font, there *is* an I in TEAM. You just have to look at the negative space created by the third letter: the A-hole if you will.
@secretgeek they raised prices for this shoddy service.
@secretgeek
Proving "I" don't need an AI assistant on my team.
@secretgeek A competing AI tool was able to figure out the meaning behind the phrase. Google has a lot of catching up to do.
@secretgeek Watch out, @lowqualityfacts ! These LLMs are coming for your job.

@secretgeek

DuckduckgoAI says there is 1 "i" in teamwork.

@glutto @secretgeek

Yes, there is an "i" in "TEAM".

@JeffGrigg @glutto @secretgeek @timo21 I have drawn this on so many whiteboards.

Yes, I’m very popular in corporate meetings.

@Jeff Grigg @Cory Doctorow nice  ...

in german, when you see TEAM as an acronym it stands for: Toll Ein Anderer Machts which roughly translates to: great, someone else is doing it
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@glutto @secretgeek

(Wow! I thought "everyone knew" about the "i" in (the word) "TEAM". Like it's an old and widely circulated joke. But I'm getting more "traction' out of this than anything else I've ever said, ever! 😱 Heck; I might even hit 10,000! https://m.xkcd.com/1053/ 😉 )

xkcd: Ten Thousand

@JeffGrigg @glutto Love that xkcd.

As a connoisseur of good internet things which age well, I pair it with this essay from 2010, "Obvious to you. Amazing to others" https://sive.rs/obvious

@secretgeek @glutto

For many years I have said

"I'm not creative.
I just take some existing things and put them together in a new way, to solve whatever problem we're facing."

Later, I realized that …
That's called "being creative." 🤍

@glutto @secretgeek
> There is one "I" in the word "teamwork." However, the concept emphasizes that each individual ("I") in a team plays a crucial role in achieving collective success.

Amazing

@secretgeek How did we went from flying cars by the 1960s to this?
@secretgeek the ai wasn't kidding with this answer
@secretgeek Can't believe ai predicted flying Is before flying cars

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one of the first "stupid-prompts" that I could actually reproduce. Holy shit:D

@P__X it’s given me three or four different answers over the last few days. Maybe it’s a supply and demand thing?
@secretgeek
This is a huuuge problem with generative AI and many people don't see how concerning it is. We used to use computers for reliability and humans for flexibility. Now we try to use computers for flexibility but compromised reliability to below a human level.
@secretgeek DuckDuckGo is confusingly wrong.
@vwbusguy @secretgeek what I like best about this is, there are three i's in "there is no I in team"
@fishidwardrobe @secretgeek Yup, that was my first reaction as well. Either way, the first "sentence" it produced makes no sense.
@vwbusguy @fishidwardrobe @secretgeek actually this does make sense and is correct. It could be WRITTEN more clearly (it's confusingly stated), but it is correct in my reading.
@codinghorror @vwbusguy @secretgeek there is not "one I in team when considering the phrase…" -- none in team, three in the phrase. so no, it doesn't make sense. it's just gramatically correct, which is not the same thing.

@secretgeek Today, I read an opinion that AI would be for iNaturalist because the “hallucinations” are getting rarer…

And recently a post proposing the use of AI in philosophy…

It reminds me of radioactive pills for health.

@Tattered lol, true.

Brawndo, it has what plans crave

@codebyjeff @secretgeek I just scroll past the AI nonsense to the real content, but it depends. Sometimes the summary is good/correct. This one is complex because of all the jokes it can't understand. You know that, right?

@codinghorror @secretgeek I understand that

Whether or not you scroll past the summary, the summary is still being generated... wasting resources, scraping your personal data, etc, etc

It's like a home system that turns on every light in your house when you enter, in case you might want to go into that room at some point

Whether or not AI gets the joke or not isn't really that interesting to me

@secretgeek

There ARE two "i"s in "how many i's in teamwork".

@secretgeek In German „teamwork“ contains one more „i“ than in English, I learned.
@secretgeek Which proves there's no I in AI.