But I’ve seen AI results that are basically extracts of sources. They’ll even give a link to them.

I tried this with MS Copilot and got this:

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list all of the US states with R in their name

Sure! Here’s a list of all U.S. states that contain the letter “R” in their name: 🗺️ U.S. States with “R” in the Name

• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• Texas
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming Let me know if you want this grouped by region or visualized in a map!

wtf, I checked out the claim about states with R in their name and it was pretty ridiculous how badly it answered it. It answers like someone running through their thoughts in front of you.

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list all of the US states with R in their name

ChatGPT said: Here’s the full list of U.S. states that have the letter R in their name:

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Maryland

Massachusetts

Missouri

Nebraska

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oregon

South Carolina

Texas – (wait… nope, no R here! ❌)

Vermont

Virginia

Washington – (nope, no R either ❌)

West Virginia

Wisconsin – (no R ❌)

Wyoming – (no R ❌)

Let me clean that up so only correct ones remain:

Final Correct List (22 states):

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Maryland

Missouri

Nebraska

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oregon

Vermont

Virginia

West Virginia

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

Massachusetts

Connecticut – (wait, no R ❌)

Minnesota – (no R ❌)

Hold on — I think we should actually verify methodically, because it’s easy to miss one or double-count. Do you want me to go alphabetically through all 50 states and pick only the ones with “R” so we’re 100% sure? That way we won’t miss any.

I keep wondering how AI is going to handle being fed poor data from other AI or its own output. It will be like a photocopy of a photocopy. The end result is an unreadable mess.

I use it to write scripts and debug error messages. It takes a good number of cycles though for it to arrive at a working result though. The scripts almost always fail on the first try and require numerous cycles to get through debugging. Once I have a working version though it becomes easier to ask for enhancements to it.

Consider the people who were killed here also.

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Next to Adja lay Djiby’s 25-year-old sister, Hassan. She’d only been living in the house for three months. Like Adja, she had dreamed of going back to school to study nursing. She died with her arms still wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter, Hawa Beye. Medical examiners would later conclude that all five died of smoke inhalation, airways coated in black soot, internal organs and muscles burnished “cherry-red” from the heat.