THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Three hiking novices asked Gemini how to climb 14,179-ft Mount Shasta.

Three hikers were rescued on Monday after they became stranded on Mount Shasta near Clear Creek Route.

The hikers told the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office they relied heavily on Google’s Gemini, an artificial intelligence assistant, for information about the route and what to pack, which the sheriff’s office called a “critical misstep.”

“They were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required, especially when their planned 8 hour ascent became a multi-day ordeal,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

Congrats, they did the meme — but survived: