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		few 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts >On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage This quote did not age well

snowwrestler 4 months ago | [–]

Now with LLMs, you can put in the right figures and the wrong answers might come out.

guelo 4 months ago | [–]

not if you consider how confused our ideas are today

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