There has always been A LOT of BS on the internyet in an automotive context.

Quora, for example, has long been my go to resource when I need A Comprehensive Compendium of Cobblers.

Lately, though, I sense a change, though I'm probably rather late in sensing it. Quite a lot of this BS is now probably not being directly generated by i****s. Its being generated by AI systems.

Heres a striking example

bryansgarage.com/types-of-cylinder-wall-damage/

"Arcing Damage

Arcing damage is one of the most common cylinder wall damages that can cause a quick heat rise to destroy the cylinder and cause cylinder liner damage.

This damage originates from welding operations and negatively affects the cylinder wall. It also produces a pressure relief and explosion to activate.

Arching can result in faster dissociation in the engine to generate larger injuries and destruction when this problem happens on a fuel gas cylinder, including acetylene"

This is striking only because its so bad. Even the internyet is unlikely to be able to find much human-generated output of such abysmal quality, so I assume AI is involved, either in machine mis-translation, and/or actual generation of the nonsense.

(It fails a twist on the Turing test: comparison with a human i****)

It becomes more of a threat when the quality improves. We have an example apparently stalking this forum at the moment which generates content that makes sense, but doesn't actually contribute anything. This kind of AI-generated "super-spam" seems to have the potential to swamp useful content.

I dunno what one does about that.

If these things were actually useful, which is at least a theoretical possibility, that would be a further complication.

Are any useful automotive AI applications known?

Wasn't there something called Skynet?

Edited by edlithgow on 22/04/2023 at 03:58