David_j_roth: Upgrading my highly public and widely used product, a cornerstone of my billion-dollar business, such that it now insists that Ron Dayne was President of the United States between the years of 1957 and 1971.

Upgrading my highly public and widely used product, a cornerstone of my billion-dollar business, such that it now insists that Ron Dayne was President of the United States between the years of 1957 and 1971.

thank you google ai, very cool

I want one thing from my search engine experience—a dozen extremely different and obviously wrong answers, hallucinated via a technology designed to generate them, to every single question I ask. Doesn't seem like too much to ask!

Also I want it to use enough electricity to keep an otherwise idling fleet of coal plants open

Yes also ideally every time I search "Mike Devereaux All-Star appearances" I want the answer I receive—"Mike Devereaux was Secretary of the Treasury under President Starscream, 1985-1997"—to have the same impact as pouring 64 ounces of potable water onto the ground.

nothing but respect for MY president

All of this is golden but “president starscream” caused actually lols, which is very rare

We are still suffering the effects of his dogshit monetary theory

Never appreciated Andrew Johnson's commitment to continuing education till now.

The real Reconstruction.

hmmm... and read them to me like Randy macho man Savage

The text equivalent of those pictorial hellscapes all older AI-generated art, given time, would devolve into. I mean all we're cooking up is the beast in Harlan Ellison I Have No Mouth.. story.

One thing I've been noticing with these AI summaries is that these are not hallucinations like we've seen before: they're wild misinterpretations of the sources it cites.

Asking Google how many ear flaps John Olerud wore on his helmet and being told it was three and also he’s currently the mayor of Bismarck, ND

andrew johnson lived on the same floor as me freshman year. i knew he would run

John Tyler raising his hand in class again and all the students sigh at the over-engaged lifelong learner.

*whispers to person next to you* didn’t he graduate like 10 years ago?

No that was John Tyler's grandson (Ok thats an exaggeration but there's at least one living grandchild of a guy who was president in the 1840s which is nuts)

Just one now and it is John Tyler's grandson.

it turns out our nation has one motto—woop! pluribus unum—two political parties—the democrats and the rrrrraaaaaaaiiiiiderrrrrssss—and the campaign for our first black president was "look at that little meggett run"

Someone who is not me or my buddy Mike remembering the phrase "look at that little meggett run" makes me feel incredibly seen.

Tried this myself and got a different but equally bad answer. John Adams has 24 degrees!

The timing of "James Madison: Class of 1956" after that is very funny to me.

It only took 108 years, but the man finally graduated from his namesake university

they both have andrew jackson 2005. im wondering if it jsut looked up every graduate in uw madison history and spit out all the ones who happened to have the same first and last names as presidents

It did. The results scrape a goofy post that the University itself did that was just people with those famous names who graduated from UW, but without that context.

Obviously we need stricter guidelines limiting goofy posts.

lmao

Yeah someone found a website that listed alumni with presidential names. It’s really funny that even while plagiarizing a website it doesn’t understand it still can’t provide consistent results

One thing I've been noticing with these AI summaries is that these are not hallucinations like we've seen before: they're wild misinterpretations of the sources it cites.

Whyyyyy? Is it just that Google is so big and pervasive that they can offer such a shoddy product without shame?

A true scholar

who could forget the thunder and lightning ticket

You could never do that kind of thing today, due to woke.

I’d like to hear out the product on this point

JFK with 3 degrees after being shot in the head. Impressive!

Millennials would never have that kind of dedication.

barry alvarez has played the role of dick cheney-esque shadow president since 1990

the rebirth of wisconsin football was running the halfback through the democratic primaries

Well, along with future Congresswoman Donna Shalala.

Ron Dayne, great man, I hear he’s being recognized more and more lately. He’s accomplished so much, many things, great guy. Peanut butter, right? We wouldn’t have peanut butter without Ron Dayne, right? Great man. Really terrific

I want to live in that world. America’s rushing attack would have been UNSTOPPABLE

Who can forget that old sitcom, 200-Year-Old Freshman

Technically it was a co-presidency with Tiki Barber

I enjoy making up ridiculous nonsense and resent automation taking this small pleasure away from me.

I remember reading when they shoved google+ into everything it was because google+ was directly part of everyone's bonus. Glad they learned from that.

I voted for Dave Meggett

As a non-AI programmer, I would be debugging this with a vial of holy water

Andrew Johnson living that Harry Potter ghostlife

with that o-line anyone coulda been president between the years of 1957 and 1971

Don’t forget that President Thornton Melon is also an alumni.

Sure is. That's UW's Abe Lincoln statue right behind him! isthmus.com/arts/movies/...

Back to "Back to School"isthmus.com Isthmus’ Jay Rath goes go Hollywood to track down alumni from “Back to School,” the Rodney Dangerfield comedy filmed on the UW campus 30 years ago.

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