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AI Wezzit

Graigwen

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Death's Head? On the grounds that the closest match on an image search was a Mongolian Death Worm.
Now I have looked up the Mongolian Death Worm I see why you came up with this. There is certainly a resemblance. I see it might be the inspiration for the sand worms in Frank Herberts Dune - luckily they don't live in Welsh caves!
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kay

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Maybe there is a reason for that!

Think evolution, taxonomy, phylum. Look closely at the image, there is a clear indication of the classification. But in any case you have the key words, albeit in different places. All you have to do is arrange them.

I first heard about this cave from my mother more than sixty years ago as she went there during the Second World war with my father when they were courting. It is possible to be cut off there I understand.

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Hmm. "Think Phylum" The resident Oligochaetologist didn't appear to recognise it as one of his. But I think he was trying to be more specific, and it was late at night. However , it does seem to be firmly attached to the substrate by a foot, which would take it out of Annelida wouldn't it?
 

Graigwen

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Hmm. "Think Phylum" The resident Oligochaetologist didn't appear to recognise it as one of his. But I think he was trying to be more specific, and it was late at night. However , it does seem to be firmly attached to the substrate by a foot, which would take it out of Annelida wouldn't it?
Oligochaetes are just a sub-class within the phylum Annelida. The picture does suggest segmentation, which I thought was a useful pointer towards Annelids. I am sure the apparent foot is just an optical illusion:), just bits of debris stuck to the body.
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kay

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Oligochaetes are just a sub-class within the phylum Annelida. The picture does suggest segmentation, which I thought was a useful pointer towards Annelids. I am sure the apparent foot is just an optical illusion:), just bits of debris stuck to the body.
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I asked him why he didn’t think it was an annelid and he said “because I know what an annelid looks like”. When pressed, he pointed to the teeth and the body shape, getting wider to the rear.

I think I'm asking rather a lot of AI imagery.
 

ChrisB

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As everybody says, this should be easy, even though the stupid AI has the words in the wrong order:


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ChrisB

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That's a classic illustration of the way these 'AI's don't understand the topic. It shows a fountain of water in the spillway, because it finds photos of dams with water doing that, but it's unaware that the spillway lets water out, not in (and also, with the surround being dry, it won't even be doing that). I really do worry that there will be serious consequences from letting this kind of AI (which is not intelligent at all) control aspects of our lives.
 

Graigwen

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That's a classic illustration of the way these 'AI's don't understand the topic. It shows a fountain of water in the spillway, because it finds photos of dams with water doing that, but it's unaware that the spillway lets water out, not in (and also, with the surround being dry, it won't even be doing that). I really do worry that there will be serious consequences from letting this kind of AI (which is not intelligent at all) control aspects of our lives.
Indeed. The theory is that the systems will learn.

Reservoir Hole is an excellent answer but may not be "right". There is some kind of problem here that I don't understand. A while ago I was offered a lot of similar images when I was trying to get decent clues for other caves (which were not Reservoir Hole or Waterfall Cave), I rejected them on the grounds that no sensible caver could get the answer from the image. I did wonder why AI seemed to be obsessed with shaft spillways. (Years ago you could walk through the tunnel to the bottom of the shaft at Llyn Cwmystradllyn.)
 

ChrisB

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There is some kind of problem here that I don't understand.
I know that Google and Facebook both serve content based on what you looked at previously. I'm sure the AI image generator shouldn't be able to access data on what a user has looked at on other sites, but a lot of things happen on the internet that shouldn't.
 
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