Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 25, 2023

“AI” chatbots tend to attempt to say what they think people will expect them to say, which is totally unrelated to what they’re capable of, what is true, or what their actual “motivations” are.

I was going to angrily comment on chatbots, but I was afraid it might be racist.

Google’s first server rack was made from how many LEGO bricks?

Is that the sea floor of the Atlantic or the Pacific?

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

The first Google’s rack were really made out of old milk crates. They didn’t make the racks out of Lego brinks until much later. Believe it or not.

Fortunately, there is no longer a Megalodon swimming along the ocean floor to interrupt our internet cat videos.

MS Bing may have to go out with a bang!

Hal of “2001” may be vindicated!

Hey! Google! Le’go my info!!!

Everyone seems afraid of AI – I’m more afraid of humans.

I did not know that about the internet cables.

So it IS a series of tubes!

And thus, Skynet was born.

I don’t think it is odd that Microsoft Bing’s AI thinks along the same lines as Bill Gates.

Many hundred years ago a company I worked for wanted myself and another guy to form a ‘wild duck’ team and make an expert system that would direct a person to a solution based on questions. The other guy and me wanted to build a system that would go through a dump, on tape, and provide us with information on what happened and the state of the machine at or near the failure team. Think a precursor to GDB. Mgmt didn’t want that, they wanted the chatty Cathy approach so others did it. I don’t think it lasted very long.

I though “most” of the internet was satellites now

Expect Terminators to appear any day now…

Interesting that the computer AI wants to start a pandemic…who programmed it, someone in China?

In 1996 (?), I was in Minnesota and online, connected to a place in South Korea, when I got disconnected. I found out later, it was because an Atlantic undersea cable had been damaged. It was described as a “rare Internet backbone failure”. I wondered why my connection crossed the Atlantic. Well, my service provider was on the United States east coast, so my connection from Minnesota was routed through there. But, if the infrastructure existed, it would have been shorter to connect by crossing North America and the Pacific Ocean.

Sounds like the Bing AI was listening to Trump.

I knew it! The internet is all wet

How can they make underwater splice connections and the coating last on all that wire, when the crap they make extension cords out of, our house wiring, car wiring harnesses etc doesn’t last! We are talking under the ocean miles deep probably the most hostile environment on earth!

Microsoft was created by the devil after he stole the original code from the creator

A server rack can hold up to 44 servers, which each weigh an average of 40 pounds at a minimum. Is LEGO really that structurally sound, it can support almost a ton of metal? Or is the factoid that their first server case was made of LEGO? Because the picture is of the first server case, and their first rack was a proper rack made of metal.

Well, most of humanity has relied on a series of overhead electrical wires in order to heat their tea and illuminate their Saturday Evening Post articles. ~ Old People Across America, Canada and beyond

Take care, may Lego foot wound care specialist Registered Nurse Cynthia “All On This Caregiver Team Suffer From Cardiac Arrhythmias and Hemorrhoids Caused By Laughter Suppression But We’re Serving A Universal Cause And The Cafeteria Sandwiches Are Okay” McPliersord be with you, and gesundheit.