Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us
Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us
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I thought this was fake or a bad result or something, but totally just duplicated it. Wow.
If you read the block of text…. It doesn’t make sense either.
99 1 ReplyA great deal of energy, hardware and software went into providing that wrong answer.
64 0 ReplyYou may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
51 0 Reply49 0 ReplyThat's a big fucking problem if true. Albeit a short lived problem.
42 0 ReplyLike every tool, it has its uses...but they are not those being advertised. LLMs are great for things where mistakes don't detract from the result (or even add to it) like brainstorming, art, music, disinformation...all that good stuff.
43 2 ReplyHave you gone 13.6 km up there to verify it's not there?
39 1 ReplyAI is statistically generated word salad.
36 1 ReplyIn 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.
30 0 ReplyRelying on LLM for any facts without verifying is playing with fire.
29 1 ReplySo really no excuse when the vogons come
26 0 ReplyForgive Bing. It’s American and doesn’t know the metric system.
25 0 ReplyI’m burrrrning!
17 0 Replywormholes confirmed
15 0 ReplyGood 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.
12 0 ReplyIt's measuring the distance to your nearest copy of Sid Myers alpha centari
12 0 ReplyHey, I have a half tank of gas, I think I will go check it out.
10 0 Reply13.6 kilometers ought to be enough for anybody.
10 0 ReplyAI sure is gonna be weird if we preface any question involving dimensions with some dumb arbitrary scale as reference.
Depending on trim and accessories, the 2025 Chevrolet Silverado weighs anywhere from 1454 to 1533 watermelons
9 0 ReplyWell then, what are we waiting for? Let's go visit Alpha Centauri!
9 0 ReplyI have a copy of the Alpha Centauri game about 13.6 meters from me.
8 0 ReplyLike, are we sure? Has someone actually checked?
8 0 ReplyWhen 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.
8 1 ReplyThat's why it's been so gosh darn hot.
7 0 Reply41.5 petameters.
Nobody using the metric system says "trillion kilometers"! 🌞
6 0 ReplyThat explains why it's so hot outside.
6 0 ReplyYes, but it feels longer with all the traffic jams.
6 0 ReplySo close, yet so far...as once Elvis said
5 0 ReplyInterstellar travel is possible after all
4 0 ReplyNow that's an explanation for Global Warming that I haven't heard before!
3 0 ReplyMaybe Bing has access to the Event Horizon's portal tech. It would explain a lot.
3 0 ReplyWho's down for a quick bike ride?
3 0 ReplyHow have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It's really right in front of us!
4 1 ReplyThe 4th dimension shortcut
6 3 ReplyIt knows the distance from Earth, but that’s not what the question was. It’s 13.6 km from somewhere.
3 0 ReplyAlpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
2 0 ReplyFrom something like this?
If Earth were the size of a sand grain, this distance would be about the width of a hair in contrast to the corresponding 6-mile (10-km) distance to Alpha Centauri in the same scale.
2 0 ReplyIt propably grabbed the info off some random number-confusing dude like me, who recently posted the Earth's diameter would be about 6 km instead of 6000.
Edit: oops, did it again. Meant radius, not diameter...
1 0 ReplyPerhaps you have asked a flat-earther AI /s
1 0 ReplyDid you actually read the answer? Looks correct to me.
1 0 ReplyAhhhh, yeah
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1 0 ReplyToo close for comfort.
1 0 ReplyI wonder if Bing over- or under-estimates the wealth of Bill Gates.
1 0 ReplyHuh. The collision must've happened a lot sooner than we thought.
1 0 ReplyBada Bing
1 0 ReplyTo be fair, the distance is 13.6 kilometers if you redefine the kilometer according to the "scale" mentioned in the answer.
1 0 Replygoogle > bing
1 1 ReplyMicrosloth is ignorant as hell to push that9
1 2 ReplyOk, lightyears, but i think the number is right?
2 3 Reply