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I'm checkin out momentum at the moment so I asked Google AI the question, What is the average speed of a cannonball?

This was the answer;

The average speed of a cannonball depends on whether you're referring to the speed of a cannonball fired from a cannon or the average speed of a car in the Cannonball Run.
 
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I found that ChatGPT can write good jokes.
 
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paulb203 said:
Thanks. Do you mean this is where this thread should be?
Not sure I know what you mean. I think this thread about AI is fine as it is. I just answered with an AI quotation I read elsewhere, but it surely made me laugh. The AI wasn't intentionally funny but turned out to be involuntarily funny. And it shows its lack of reliability at the current state.
 
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fresh_42 said:
And it shows its lack of reliability at the current state.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
 
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Hornbein said:
Enjoy it while it lasts.
I think that AI cannot evolve beyond Boolean algebra and data mining. Language, however, is usually context-sensitive. A collection of words has a meaning that carries more information than the collection of their definitions. E.g: "NP = P or not is actually the question of whether there exist intrinsically difficult problems or whether we just weren't able to find them, yet." is a sentence an AI probably won't produce. It has a meaning carried by the word "we" that goes beyond its definition.
 
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fresh_42 said:
I think that AI cannot evolve beyond Boolean algebra and data mining. Language, however, is usually context-sensitive. A collection of words has a meaning that carries more information than the collection of their definitions. E.g: "NP = P or not is actually the question of whether there exist intrinsically difficult problems or whether we just weren't able to find them, yet." is a sentence an AI probably won't produce. It has a meaning carried by the word "we" that goes beyond its definition.
We'll see.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Not sure I know what you mean. I think this thread about AI is fine as it is. I just answered with an AI quotation I read elsewhere, but it surely made me laugh. The AI wasn't intentionally funny but turned out to be involuntarily funny. And it shows its lack of reliability at the current state.
Ah, I just thought you meant the thread was a random thought and should be with the other random thoughts :)
I'm often putting stuff in the wrong place and being politely redirected :)
 
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Yeah, AI has made me chuckle. I managed to get a Mistral AI model that ran on my laptop to explain what artificial intelligence is, while using vulgar language (f word, etc). It did a good job.
 
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