@KevinMarks I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

@KevinMarks I'm made of perhaps 1026 of them, leaving 52 to 56 of them left for everyone else.

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But ^ is an Ascii character, so it may be that it was originally a superscript markup.

Even so, that should not force removal of valid UTF-8.

@KevinMarks swear if I hear Trump complaining that the Haitian immigrants are taking all the atoms imma lose my shit

@KevinMarks BIGGGG, chunky, ATTOMMMZ

@KevinMarks Speaking as someone who’s at least 4 million times worse than the average person at estimation, this seems good enough to me!

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Giggling at this :-)

@KevinMarks "Give or take"

@KevinMarks looks like they corrected it. Still hasn't told me how much Ohio weighs.

@KevinMarks Google's Gemini doesn't have an issue with it. Probably a problem with the output not the training?

@KevinMarks i have the impression this is not correct

the universe is just 6 atoms we are just very good at sharing them

@KevinMarks I asked Google for some prime numbers and it gave me 4 prime numbers and the letter "Q"...

@KevinMarks is that 10⁷⁸ and 10⁸²?

@KevinMarks They clearly state it's an approximation.

@KevinMarks 1082 electron universe postulate.

@KevinMarks "24 is the highest number, foggeddaboutit!"

@KevinMarks the bleeding edge in computing,with the full power of a neural network of fifteen and a half neurons. The finest in the world.

@KevinMarks How can there be 1.5 billion chinese if the universe only got about 1078 atoms? I'll tell you what, that whole China business is some CIA Conspiracy!

@KevinMarks It’s just a rough estimate

@KevinMarks Gemini can't see very far

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Each of these atoms forms the brain cell of an orange cat.

@KevinMarks That, or it's been "reading" a lot of pdf files.

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Atoms are apparently much bigger than we once thought.

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Engineers: Accurate to two decimal places

Physicists: Accurate to an order of magnitude

Astrophysicists: Accurate to an order of magnitude in the exponent

@KevinMarks @nellie_m It’s pretty close to correct if you use base 10^27 (1000 in that base = 10^81 in decimal). However, “unlikely to be too far off the mark” is the best you’re likely to get, since no one I’ve met has been able to remember all the different digits required to write any given number in that base.

@KevinMarks It's a *ROUGH ESTIMATE*, Kevin 😒

(😂😂😂)

@KevinMarks really is a small world hunh.

@KevinMarks caret ^ is ASCII 94

@KevinMarks This is unacceptable. People use Google to find information. The results produced by Google themselves should not be so erroneous that the feature lacks all reason for existing.

@KevinMarks this looks more like it stripoed HTML sup tags, honestly

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The other 16 are a bit shy.

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Google has done this before. Back in the early days of Google search you could not search for C++ because only alphanumeric characters were valid in search terms.

@KevinMarks ??? I thought there were more.

@KevinMarks @glennf I’ve always leaned towards 1078; however, I’m willing to go as high as 1080. 1082, though, is just absurd.

@KevinMarks Tja.

@KevinMarks Did it say where they were?

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^and are made of total totally fine ASCII characters.

@KevinMarks And companies are falling over themselves to get on this AI bandwagon, and boast about how it is already being used to handle important decisions such as people's taxes? Brave new world!

@KevinMarks Well, that would simplify the fuck out of the traveling salesman problem.

@KevinMarks I have a uBlock filter that hides “Slop Overview” from my search results. Clearly it’s a filter worth keeping.

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^ (94) is ASCII

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I think, rather than laugh, we should be very, very afraid!

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You said "Intelligence" !? 🤦

@KevinMarks That particular one's not just Google or AI. The number of times I've seen that kind of error in newspapers is just silly.

@KevinMarks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

@KevinMarks small if true.