AI, AI, AI Tiger

 I think my only practical experience with AI is my Tiger Woods golf game. It's from 2013 so, maybe it was early AI and they've made improvements since then? It doesn't talk to me, and it certainly doesn't solve many of my problems like I understand current AI does. It should because that's what it's supposed to do as it is called "Ask Caddie" and it's supposed to help you line up shots better. It actually is a boon on rounds where EA Sports has made the game *interesting* by introducing ridiculous wind onto random courses, but even then, you can ever completely trust it. The Ask Caddie is so bent on giving you a computerized, weird slant on even the easiest of shots, that I find myself wondering if my caddie isn't a secret drinker or high on something else. 

I bought this game used and it came without an instruction manual. Not a big deal as all the various yearly editions of TW golf pretty much play the same and I've been very good at all of them. Once I figured out how to use the caddie, I became dependent upon it. I mean- this thing was telling me precisely how many yards left or right I should aim my ball and how much loft I needed- or didn't need. Should I open or close my stance? How much? It's a computer- it must know! 

Often it does. Not often enough though. Thing is, I got real good without it. I haven't lost a round in 20 years(?) It hasn't made me better by thinking I don't have to think so much about a shot. I'm not using my mind to figure a shot out. I'm not using anybody's mind. Well, no human mind.

Yeah, on ridiculously abusive winds, it helps and I do use it. Mostly because, why not? We're not talking real world difficulty that can be defeated with skill and judgement. We're talking a 34-mph wind in a hard rain! If it were a real golf course in those conditions, I'd fucking go home! 

I'm sure there are good uses for AI. Rival blogger, Maggie, gets some pretty cool pictures out of it. I like that. We get talking babies telling jokes on Facebook via AI. That's cute. Will it change the world? I don't know if I care. They quit making Tiger Woods golf games like ten years ago and that's why I'm still stuck in the past on '13. Had they gone on, they might have created one where, if you beat Tiger (as I always do) you get to go out whoring with him. That'd be fun! Beat him there too...

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  1. MaggieOctober 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM

    If you complain to a business most likely you're communicating with AI. Doctor's appointments, most big businesses use it. I think it's so ingrained in our lives people don't even realize it. Naturally some schmuck will use it for evil. I think the real tiger woods is falling apart.

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    1. ex-ferrerOctober 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM

      Yep, Tiger is toast. He was fun while he lasted!

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