You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 8.
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”Space,” it says, ”is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen . . . ” and so on.
That’s a big fucking problem if true. Albeit a short lived problem.
AI is statistically generated word salad.
Yah I’m so happy every major internet and tech company is deciding to deliberately power every system we use with random word salad generators, there’s no chance will cause any problems.
it’s like having Sarah Palin for dinner!
So is human speech
So really no excuse when the vogons come
There’s no excuse anyway. The plans were very prominently displayed.
Relying on LLM for any facts without verifying is playing with fire.
I suspect there’s a quite-overlapping Venn diagram of people who rely on LLMs for their “facts” with people who believe the earth is flat and people who believe ancient aliens are real.
Forgive Bing. It’s American and doesn’t know the metric system.
In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away… which is also wrong, lol
For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.
Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
It’s measuring the distance to your nearest copy of Sid Myers alpha centari
wormholes confirmed
Well then, what are we waiting for? Let’s go visit Alpha Centauri!
Good golly, someone make some chocolate chip cookies, we’re going to have to go and welcome them to the neighborhood. Damn rude no one said anything sooner.
When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.
This is the main reason why AI cannot be trusted to answer science questions. They absolutely need a database of facts.
And it’s a reason AI cannot be trusted. Full stop.
Perhaps in 50-100 years after people stop being stupid about it.
13.6 kilometers ought to be enough for anybody.
Like, are we sure? Has someone actually checked?
