AI Is Out To Destroy Your Pipes!

[VDL_Piper]

AI is the devil, we just don’t know it yet!

 

[huntertrw]

Herr Lang:

 

[Steddy]

I’m not really older than the internet but when I was a kid only the dad blasted gubbermint and the evil godless huge multinational corporations had it.

In the early ninties we heard about the “information superhighway” and really couldn’t imagine what the World Wide Web was.

Y2K threatened our national existence until —-January 1, 2000 came and went without our cars not starting or much of anything happening bad.

My experiences with artificial intelligence so far have all been very pleasant.

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I can’t think of a worse marketing picture for a GPS than the one above, “Chester, this way”.
You need a GPS with AI that won’t even tell you how to get there.
“Mr. GPS, I’d like to go to Chester”.
GPS replies, “Did you bump your head when you got out of bed?”

 

[theTomTom]

I ran across an alcohol retort cleaning of a pipe.

it involved a stock pot filled with ever clear, a pipe dropped in. and the whole kaboodle brought to a roiling boil.

 

[sablebrush52]

I ran across an alcohol retort cleaning of a pipe.

it involved a stock pot filled with ever clear, a pipe dropped in. and the whole kaboodle brought to a roiling boil.

I’ve used the boiling alcohol retort a number of times and it has never involved dropping a pipe in boiling alcohol. The retort is attached to the stem using a rubber tube. The chamber is filled with cotton, and you use a rocking motion to move the boiling alcohol back and forth between the chamber and the retort. Works great for removing tars and oils from the briar, but total immersion? No way.

 

[huntertrw]

it involved a stock pot filled with ever clear, a pipe dropped in. and the whole kaboodle brought to a roiling boil.

Listen to sablebrush52!

What you "ran across" has BAD IDEA written all over it. In the first place Everclear grain alcohol is HIGHLY flammable. To fill a stock pot with it and bring it to a rolling boil is to risk (at a minimum) a fire. In the second place, this would probably strip every bit of finish and patina off of the exterior of the pipe.