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[–] [email protected] 158 points 6 months ago (24 children)

"We invented a new kind of calculator. It usually returns the correct value for the mathematics you asked it to evaluate! But sometimes it makes up wrong answers for reasons we don't understand. So if it's important to you that you know the actual answer, you should always use a second, better calculator to check our work."

Then what is the point of this new calculator?

Fantastic comment, from the article.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's a nascent stage technology that reflects the world's words back at you in statistical order by way parsing user generated prompts. It's a reactive system with no autonomy to deviate from a template upon reset. It's no Rokos Basilisk inherently, just because

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

am I understanding correctly that it's just a fancy random word generator

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

More or less, yes.

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