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Relying on LLM for any facts without verifying is playing with fire.
I suspect there’s a quite-overlapping Venn diagram of people who rely on LLMs for their “facts” with people who believe the earth is flat and people who believe ancient aliens are real.
Good golly, someone make some chocolate chip cookies, we’re going to have to go and welcome them to the neighborhood. Damn rude no one said anything sooner.
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I use to be able to ask google the distance in kilometers of anything in space and get an accurate answer. So I first asked this same question in google but it only gave the answer in light years for some reason. That’s when I went to bing and got their ridiculous answer.
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According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.
This is not correct, and is probably the result of rounding the light year distance to 4 ly before converting to km. The google answer is pretty close.
The correct answer is the distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion km) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
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Like, are we sure? Has someone actually checked?
Yeah, some nerds won’t shut up about their fake numbers
13.6 kilometers ought to be enough for anybody.
When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.
This is the main reason why AI cannot be trusted to answer science questions. They absolutely need a database of facts.
And it’s a reason AI cannot be trusted. Full stop.
Perhaps in 50-100 years after people stop being stupid about it.
Well then, what are we waiting for? Let’s go visit Alpha Centauri!
This sounds like an opportunity for a light jog!
I c what you did there.
So really no excuse when the vogons come
There’s no excuse anyway. The plans were very prominently displayed.
On display? I finally found them in the bottom of a locked filling cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the leopard”.
Hey, I have a half tank of gas, I think I will go check it out.
It’s
126 miles to Chicago13.6 kilometers to Alpha Centauri, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack off cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
get in
I’ll be the non jokey one here and bring us all down with the hard math. 13.6 kilometers converted into American is pretty much, like, way more than a half tank of gas unless you have a Prius. But you do you. Can you get me a slushie on the way back? You know I’m good for it.
It’s measuring the distance to your nearest copy of Sid Myers alpha centari
Have you gone 13.6 km up there to verify it’s not there?
13.6km is 44,619ft.
So nearly every time one flies commercial, yes, since cruising altitude is between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. I think a large triple-star system would be quite visible at that point.
That’s high. I didn’t know they went that far up.
Don’t worry! The people at Boeing building the aircraft are high as well.
I imagine if you were 13.6 km from a star you would either burn up or fall into the star’s gravity well.
Or both…briefly.
That’s a big fucking problem if true. Albeit a short lived problem.
wormholes confirmed
Stargate is a documentary.
In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away… which is also wrong, lol
For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.
These are all equally confusing. How many American football fields?
Approximately 437,445,319,335,083 of those.
That’s close to 2!
17! is closer
In scientific terms? An absolute fuck-ton of football fields.
Yes but how many giraffes, laid end-to-end?
One football field is about a hectometer and there are 10 hectometers per kilometer. So 415 trillion.
Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
