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join the sect says the person who's against a glorified calculator?
My calculator has 100% accuracy, always, it's never wrong. If AI were like that it'd be great.
And calculators can't be tweaked to subtly change messaging to push a narrative, or a product, or whatever.
Calculators didn't steal the work of all humanity to try to put them out of a job.
Calculators don't really get used for scams by cloning people's voices.
Could go on and on how calculators and LLMs are different.
wait till you find out how floating point works 🤣