Artificial intelligence - limited

[Serial_Apologist]

To heck with AI - currently have a problem up in Scotland with CalMac. The company seems completely incapable of dealing with problems due to the failure of its ships, using AI, human intelligence, or otherwise

Ships???

[Old Grumpy]

Well, ferries at least

[Dave2002]

Well, ferries at least

Do you call them ships or boats?

Anyway seems that the recent problems were eventually fixed, and we are now back on mainland UK. Calmac does seem to be rather error prone, and that has a significant adverse effect on many offshore communities.

Disruption continues after CalMac's biggest ferry hit by technical fault https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...lands-65237610

[Frances_iom]

Do you call them ships or boats?

here on IoM it's the 'boat' as in "there's a boat in the morning" as a riposte to any non-Manx criticising the Island - but when the RoRo boat fails (weather or engine) there is a run on supermarkets!

[Old Grumpy]

here on IoM it's the 'boat' as in "there's a boat in the morning" as a riposte to any non-Manx criticising the Island - but when the RoRo boat fails (weather or engine) there is a run on supermarkets!

As in Ro, Ro, Ro yer boat

[Old Grumpy]

Do you call them ships or boats?

'Twould appear to be in the eye of the beholder, but in this article a Ro-Ro is considered a ship: https://www.marineinsight.com/types-...cross%20oceans.

[smittims]

Ships, boats, vessels, steamers. It depends when you are (or were) saying it. And of course pedantry intrudes at times.

Overheard conversation on the sea front in Devon:
Mother to child: Oh, look at all the litttle boats.
Retired Admiral: They are Yachts, madam!

I've known people who only call a three-masted full rigged sailing vessel a ship, the others being barques, schooners, steamers, etc.

Then there's the hoary old question. How many ropes are there on a full-rigged ship?

Pedant's answer: One: the bell-rope. All the others are stays, sheets, yards, braces, etc.

[Dave2002]

As in Ro, Ro, Ro yer boat

Curious you should mention that.

What time signature would you recommend for that one? Seems almost anything goes!

[Old Grumpy]

Curious you should mention that.

What time signature would you recommend for that one? Seems almost anything goes!

Dunno, never really thought about it!

How about this: https://www.google.com/search?q=row+...eCM&lnspr=W10=

i.e. take your pick!

[Jazzrook]

Jonathan Freedland on AI:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/26/future-ai-chilling-humans-threat-civilisation

JR

[JasonPalmer]

Nothing to fear, it will all work out for good.

[Frances_iom]

Nothing to fear, it will all work out for good.

have you factored in the Dunning-Kruger effect to reach that panglossian conclusion