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I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
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A pencil is a tool with a pretty wide open purpose within the writing ecosystem. It can be used to document history or remember a phone number or draw a picture.
You can also stab yourself in the eye with it or plan a murder.
Yes, a pencil can do a whole bunch of different. things. GenAI cannot do things. It has no purpose. Pencils were made to write stuff. GenAI was made to ???. It is a technology in search of a problem to address. A niche to fill. It has no purpose as it stands, yet it is supposedly the most important thing ever to the point where the rich and wealthy are losing their minds investing into it on the vague hopes that it'll do something. They've even got our government in on it; the US economy is being dangerously propped up by this industry that doesn't solve any problems or fulfill any purpose. All the things it does are novelties and even then, it does those things poorly and unreliably.