The future and the role of Artificial intelligence.

[Hawk256]

If Antony Bourdain recommended a restaurant I'd go

I really miss him. He was the person that got me to start traveling and I've never looked back.

 

[ChrisOnBali]

If Antony Bourdain recommended a restaurant I'd go

Sure, I guess he's a mate of yours so you know that he likes the sort of places you like; but I don't know the chap, so his opinion makes no difference to me.

If my mate Will suggested a place, I might be more likely to go, since we have similar tastes and I know he doesn't have any reason to deceive me, didn't get a free meal there, and isn't paid to have opinions about places.

I'm being slightly disingenuous of course, presumably Bordain is some kind of well-known reviewer but makes no difference, I'm not really interested in the opinions of strangers about restaurants, nor anything else, doubly so when there's a good chance they benefit from publishing that opinion.

I judge things by what people I know and trust reckon, and by my own experience, this whole business of being up on what the self-anointed few bestow their blessings upon is similar to clothes and music fashion, it's generally for people with a personality deficit who need to be told what will make them part of the crowd, because to be an individual is just too scary.

My brand is not diluted

Well, there you go, that little phrase of uber-wankness counts you out of any consideration as a human being to take any notice of. "My brand", jesus, what a load of pretentious twaddle people come out with these days.

 

[snpark]

Sure, I guess he's a mate of yours so you know that he likes the sort of places you like; but I don't know the chap, so his opinion makes no difference to me.

If my mate Will suggested a place, I might be more likely to go, since we have similar tastes and I know he doesn't have any reason to deceive me, didn't get a free meal there, and isn't paid to have opinions about places.

I'm being slightly disingenuous of course, presumably Bordain is some kind of well-known reviewer but makes no difference, I'm not really interested in the opinions of strangers about restaurants, nor anything else, doubly so when there's a good chance they benefit from publishing that opinion.

I judge things by what people I know and trust reckon, and by my own experience, this whole business of being up on what the self-anointed few bestow their blessings upon is similar to clothes and music fashion, it's generally for people with a personality deficit who need to be told what will make them part of the crowd, because to be an individual is just too scary.


Well, there you go, that little phrase of uber-wankness counts you out of any consideration as a human being to take any notice of. "My brand", jesus, what a load of pretentious twaddle people come out with these days.

You should really Google who is Antony Bourdain. He was extremely well known and respected chef author and travel writer. What I meant was his opinion is honest and his reviews if that were from the heart

He is sadly missed. RIP now

And regarding me being a wanker. You obviously didn't see it was written in the sarcasm font. I forget you are new.

I don't have any brand but neither do I aspire to have one.

My point was the more things you profess to love as your favourite the less likely people will believe you especially if you are getting paid to say it

Sorry you didn't get my sense of humour. My bad for not putting inverted comma and lol

Lol. Lot of love.
Grandma just died. Lol

 

[pantaiema]

Why anyone gives a hoot what the real human 'influencers' think about anything has always amazed me, so why output generated by a computer along the same lines would be of interest to anyone is an even deeper mystery.

The sooner everyone learns to ignore these self-aggrandizing parasites the better.

Why? Simple IMO. People may not realise it at first, or it isn’t immediately obvious. It usually only becomes clear once someone exposes it and brings it to light.

In Post #175, @harryopal1 offers a logical explanation. This kind of phenomenon has existed long before AI became dominant. Consider fake financial influencers; There are still many of them across social media today. In more extreme cases, such as in Indonesia, some people have even believed that a witch doctor could multiply their money. A good worldwide example, 'Jake Paul'. Some people, his followers still believe an influencer, character like him is better than professional Boxer like Anthony Joshua, until he ended up in the Hospital in the real match (see attachment).

Another reason is for entertainment. Just look at science fiction movies, horror movies not to mention some adults enjoy watching Harry Potter.

 

[snpark]

Or there's God and his fictional stories in a book someone wrote

 

[pantaiema]

Absolutely, it's credulous idiots who follow them, and enough people who run hotels and the like bowing down to them thinking they will trash their business if they don't give them free stuff, essentially blackmail.

These are calculating manipulative liars, not to mention extortionists; substituting that for 'influencer' in any text would be a lot more accurate.

The insidious manner by which social media firms pay people to generate traffic is a huge factor, of course.

It also reminds me on 'Sam Bankman-Fried' the co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX.


He became a billionaire using financial influencers to promote FTX. These financial influencers promoting the failed FTX still exist today and have followers promoting other things such as their useless financial, trading courses, etc

Other example: The rise of An NFT (non-fungible token), 'shit coins' promoted by celebrities influencers.

 

[harryopal1]

An unfortunate and now frequent scam is for scammers to take the names and images of well known trusted business people and use AI to have them recommend investment schemes. I feel so sorry for those hard working people who have carefully saved superannuation across their working lives and are then taken in by such schemes and lose everything.

 

[ChrisOnBali]

Or there's God and his fictional stories in a book someone wrote

Yep, there's a classic example, the best surely. It's amazing what people will believe if you sprinkle a bit of mysticism around it and tell everyone it automatically makes you a better person, or that you'll have a spiffing time after you die.

I read/watch a lot about European history these days, 1600s at the moment. The landmass we now call Europe was constantly at war with itself, and all about which flavour of ice cream [checks notes], sorry, which type of Christianity was the best.

Cities were routinely ravaged and destroyed, with literally tens of thousands of non-combatants murdered by both Protestant and Catholic-backed troops, and all in the name of religion because the city was officially the other slightly different form of the same religion.

In Magdeberg in maybe 1630-something, nearly all the 25,000-ish inhabitants were slaughtered, that's not the city garrison, but the townspeople who had no bloody choice who they were told to worship. Can't remember by which side, but both murderers and murdered all worshipped the same Christian deity; regardless of in what exact manner they did so - what kind of benevolent god would approve of that ?

Thankfully Christianity has generally matured from this psychotic teenager phase, if only another religion would do the same.

 

[pantaiema]

Yep, there's a classic example, the best surely. It's amazing what people will believe if you sprinkle a bit of mysticism around it and tell everyone it automatically makes you a better person, or that you'll have a spiffing time after you die.

I read/watch a lot about European history these days, 1600s at the moment. The landmass we now call Europe was constantly at war with itself, and all about which flavour of ice cream [checks notes], sorry, which type of Christianity was the best.

Cities were routinely ravaged and destroyed, with literally tens of thousands of non-combatants murdered by both Protestant and Catholic-backed troops, and all in the name of religion because the city was officially the other slightly different form of the same religion.

In Magdeberg in maybe 1630-something, nearly all the 25,000-ish inhabitants were slaughtered, that's not the city garrison, but the townspeople who had no bloody choice who they were told to worship. Can't remember by which side, but both murderers and murdered all worshipped the same Christian deity; regardless of in what exact manner they did so - what kind of benevolent god would approve of that ?

Thankfully Christianity has generally matured from this psychotic teenager phase, if only another religion would do the same.

Some people do adopt a “pre-emptive” approach, particularly when it requires little effort, time, or money, and they will be doing the activities told by the holy books anyway to keep them busy, active on their retirements??

Many argue that there is no God, no hell, and no heaven, life is only on this planet earth. But what if those things do exist, and you have already been sent to another world? After all, no one alive can ever truly confirm that there is no other life after death.

 

[Helpful Herbert]

What if earth is just a ping pong ball being used in a match between galactic deities, and we are currently at the end of the second game in a best of seven match, so the ball has been left to lie on the floor but will shortly be picked up again by one of the deities.
No one can disprove that particular hypothesis can they.

 

[snpark]

What if earth is just a ping pong ball being used in a match between galactic deities, and we are currently at the end of the second game in a best of seven match, so the ball has been left to lie on the floor but will shortly be picked up again by one of the deities.
No one can disprove that particular hypothesis can they.

Well. Funnily enough