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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Arrives like a wet turd hitting the bottom of the bowl at HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576324
there are some promptfondlers trying valiantly to defend it but most correctly identify the author as a kid who doesn't know shit.
name one.
Does the "cats are a liquid" paper count?
That was a Calvin and Hobbes comic long before it was a meme.
Ten bucks this guy hasn’t double-checked anything his chatbot told him but accepted it as truth because it used big words in grammatically coherent ways.
Electromagnetism is a standard subject covered in a bajillion books, so the training set is probably full of repeated explanations of the basic examples. That sounds like an excellent recipe for "AI" bilge-water that is just coherent enough for a student to miss where it goes wrong.
And here I thought it was easy to find high schoolers that are both wrong and sure of themselves.