With the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, many are proclaiming the death of Google is nigh. Why search when you can chat with an all-knowing AI?
Well, because, as we wrote last year, those AIs have a tendency to make up their answers. If you need proof of the trouble this can cause: Stack Overflow just banned responses from ChatGPT for being plausibly wrong too often.
It’s one of the many amazing tidbits in the annual list of 52 facts compiled by consultant and former journalist Tom Whitwell. Each year’s list is a doozy and 2022 is no exception. Another favorite: “In 1739, there were three times more coffee shops per person in London than there are today.”
[Medium - Tom Whitwell]
Twitter’s greatest poster has shared his thoughts on the platform’s new owner in an interview with The Washington Post. Here’s Dril on Musk:
“Everything he does is a comedic bit. He’s always trying to get a laugh, that’s why he makes all his cars suicidal. Just watching everything burn, it’s entertaining, that’s for sure.”
Wise words.
[Washington Post]
