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wwarnout t1_iz69yfe wrote

Reply to comment by ooru in This AI Chatbot is insane. If feels like a human on the other side. Ask it to write you a story about something you like. Whoa - The future is now. by CloudMak3r

> but the problem is: it sounds plausible to the layperson

Exactly. I'm an engineer, so I asked it to calculate the loading on a beam. The first attempt returned 35 grams, which is 4 orders of magnitude too small. The second attempt returned 800 kg, which is more plausible, but I'd have to do my own calcs to verify it.

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