So, How's That "Super Intelligence" Going?

     Gizmodo, 21 hours ago: "The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide."
     FAA, 3:54 p.m.: Nationwide ground stop.  "All departing traffic should remain groundstopped until further notice." In other words, no end in sight.

     Microsoft, busily implementing AI, suffered a huge outage yesterday through today in many of its web-delivered services.

     At Microsoft, armies of technicians and engineers dug in and have largely got the services functioning again.  FAA has fewer people -- there's your lean, "running the government like a business" approach, in this case Earl's Discount Variety, where they have only one clerk on duty at a time, who also stocks shelves -- but I have no doubt they've got everyone with a clue hard at work solving the problem and they will eventually succeed.  Sorry about your vacation and that critical overnight air express shipment!

     There seems to be a common thread here, and you can expect more it it.  "A.I" as it presently exists is not up to doing critical tasks.  Hey, maybe it will be, some day.  It's pretty convincing to a lot of people right now.  But when put to the test, it keeps collapsing like air-whipped bullshit on a hot summer's day, so maybe -- just maybe -- we might want to wait and keep on playing with it in applications where it doesn't gum up great swathes of email or endanger air travel, air travelers, and all us people on the ground under airplane routes?  Or, I guess, we can wait until it really screws up and manages to kill a bunch of people, and live with the reaction.

     Oh mighty Googly AI, what is the "Butlerian Jihad?"