Allow me to paint a purely hypothetical picture for you — for, erm, no reason in particular.
Imagine the following conversation about a groundbreaking new product someone is really excited to show you. I’ll take the liberty of playing the role of you and responding as we go:
“Hey, look, this new magic instant dictionary is super convenient and easy to use!”
Oh, nice — so it gives you correct definitions and everything?
“Well, some of the time.”
Huh. So sometimes it just doesn’t tell you things?
“No, it always answers. It’s just wrong with every fourth answer or so.”
Weird. But you can tell when it’s wrong, at least?
“No, it still says the answer really confidently, so you assume it’s right. You just have to double-check its answers in a regular dictionary to be sure. Or, you know, just accept that you’re going to have wrong definitions sometimes.”
Isn’t that…a problem?
2024-05-24 16:51:02
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