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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:37:24 +0000
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:57:05 -0500
JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:17:16 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> 
> >But it's not a devasting insight; large amounts of grunt
> >knowledge-based working will be done by machines
> >pretty soon.
> 
> So, I asked Google's AI this question, but stated it in two different
> ways: "How many significant digits after the decimal point does Google
> map, or Google Earth use?"
> 
> 1. Google, in contexts like displaying latitude and longitude
> coordinates on maps, uses 14 significant digits after the decimal
> point.
> 
> 2. Google Maps and Google Earth typically use 6 to 7 significant
> digits after the decimal point
> 
> Second answer is the more correct one, but first answer is off the
> charts.
> 
> >will be done by machines pretty soon.
> 
> I won't get AI robotic surgery

Not for a while for that; just that a human doctor will be aided in
diagnosis. When I said machines, I meant software (see knowledge-based). 

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.