Google's AI summaries are a joke, not even a funny one.

[Wildeblood]

My input to Google search box: monarchs of britain reigns list

Here's a list of British monarchs, along with their reigns, from the 10th century to the present day:
Anglo-Saxon and Danish Period (871-1066):
Alfred the Great: 871-899
Edward the Elder: 899-924
Athelstan: 924-939
Edmund I: 939-946
Aethelred: 979-1016
Edmund II: 1016
Normans and Plantagenets (1066-1485):
William I (the Conqueror): 1066-1087
William II: 1087-1100
Henry I: 1100-1135
Stephen: 1135-1154
Henry II: 1154-1189
Richard I (the Lionheart): 1189-1199
John: 1199-1216
Henry III: 1216-1272
Edward I: 1272-1307
Edward II: 1307-1327
Edward III: 1327-1377
Richard II: 1377-1399
House of Lancaster and York (1399-1485):
Henry IV: 1399-1413
Henry V: 1413-1422
Henry VI: 1422-1461, 1470-1471
Edward IV: 1461-1470, 1471-1483
Edward V: 1483
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[Wildeblood]

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// JavaScript for Oolite (ECMAScript 5)

"use strict";

// worldScripts.FlashCardAsteroidGame

this.name = "FlashCardAsteroidGame";

this.NUM_ASTEROIDS = 10;

// Define your flash cards here
this.flashCards = [
    { key: "Queen Anne", definition: "reigned from 1702 to 1714" },
    { key: "King George I", definition: "reigned from 1714 to 1727" },
    { key: "King George II", definition: "reigned from 1727 to 1760" },
    { key: "King George III", definition: "reigned from 1760 to 1820" },
    { key: "King George IV", definition: "reigned from 1820 to 1930" },
    { key: "King William IV", definition: "reigned from 1830 to 1837" },
    { key: "Queen Victoria", definition: "reigned from 1837 to 1901" },
    { key: "King Edward VII", definition: "reigned from 1901 to 1910" },
    { key: "King George IV", definition: "reigned from 1910 to 1936" },
    { key: "King Edward VIII", definition: "reigned during 1936" },
    { key: "King George VI", definition: "reigned from 1936 to 1952" },
    { key: "Elizabeth II", definition: "reigned from 1952 to 2022" },
    { key: "Charles III", definition: "has reigned since 2022" }
];

// Start the game
    this._startFlashCardGame = function () {
        player.consoleMessage("Activating Flash-Card Asteroid Field!");
        this._spawnFlashCardAsteroids();
    };

// Spawn asteroids with flash card names
    this._spawnFlashCardAsteroids = function () {
        var flashsteroids = system.addShips("asteroid", this.NUM_ASTEROIDS, player.ship.position, 10000);
        for (let i = 0; i < flashsteroids.length; i++) {
            this._assignFlashCard(flashsteroids[i]);
        }
    };

// Assign a flash card to an asteroid
    this._assignFlashCard = function (entity) {
        var card = this.flashCards[Math.floor(Math.random() * this.flashCards.length)];
        entity._flashCardKey = card.key;
        entity._flashCardDefinition = card.definition;
        entity.displayName = card.key;
    };

// Optional: Show a message when targeting a flash-card asteroid
    this.shipTargetAcquired = function (target) {
        if (target._flashCardKey) {
            player.consoleMessage("Define: " + target._flashCardKey);
        }
    };

// When asteroid is destroyed, send comms message
    this.shipTargetDestroyed = function (target) {
        if (target._flashCardDefinition) {
            player.commsMessage(target._flashCardKey + ": " + target._flashCardDefinition);
        }
    };

[Wildeblood]

The absolute stupidity of those annoying "AI summaries" Google has substituted for search results continues to amaze me:

My exact input to the Google search box (it's obviously a shade of cyan):

What colour is this: { blue = 0.8; green = 0.8; }

Google's verbatim response (inc. Google's, not my, emphases):

AI Overview

The provided color is yellow. In an RGB color model, a color is defined by the intensity of red, green, and blue light, where 0 is the absence of light and 255 is the maximum intensity. The given values blue = 0.8 and green = 0.8 indicate a medium-to-high intensity for both blue and green. However, since there's no red component specified, and equal amounts of blue and green are present, the resulting color will be a shade of yellow.
Explanation:
RGB Color Model:
The RGB color model uses red, green, and blue light to create a wide range of colors.
Intensity:
Each color component (red, green, blue) is represented by a value between 0 and 1 (or 0 and 255 in some contexts). Higher values indicate more intense light.
Yellow:
When red and green light are combined at similar intensities, they produce yellow. The absence of blue light (or low intensity) in this case will further emphasize the yellow hue.

[Cholmondely]

They say that Divine Right theory ended with Queen Anne. She was the last to touch for scrofula.


Oh! And https://rgbcolorpicker.com/0-1

[phkb]

DuckDuckGo had a better response:

The color represented by { blue = 0.8; green = 0.8; } is a shade of cyan, as it has high values for both blue and green, while red is not specified. In RGB terms, this would be similar to rgb(0, 204, 204) or a light cyan color

[Redspear]

Google's verbatim response (inc. Google's, not my, emphases):

...

since there's no red component specified, and equal amounts of blue and green are present, the resulting color will be a shade of yellow.

...

Yellow:
When red and green light are combined at similar intensities, they produce yellow. The absence of blue light (or low intensity) in this case will further emphasize the yellow hue.

Wow. That's a special kind of wrong.