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Treating artificial intelligence as an omniscient oracle

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Consulting the stars has been entirely replaced by typing prompts into a text box. As language models become more complex, a subset of users has begun treating predictive text generators like literal omniscient deities that hold the secrets of the cosmos. They completely ignore the fact that the oracle frequently hallucinates basic math.

Treating artificial intelligence as an omniscient oracle
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