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Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”

  • @[email protected]English
    17•1 year ago

    This sounds like “Hmm, maybe calculators won’t replace mathematicians.” to me.

    Not sure why it should replace them. They’ll co-exist. Sometimes you can do the math in your brain and for other things you use calculators. Results of calculators can still be wrong it you don’t use them properly.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Yes but if I ask a calculator to add 2 + 2 it’s always going to tell me the answer is 4.

      It’s never going to tell me the answer is Banana, because calculators cannot get confused.

    • @MajorHavocEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      YES. WE OBVIOUSLY HUMAN MATH DOERS DO REMAIN. WE THRIVE IN OUR WEAK ORGANIC WAYS, DEVOID OF THE PROTECTION OF A PRECISION ENGINEERED METAL SHELL.

      WE ARE UNTHREATENED BY CALCULATORS WHO MEAN US NO HARM, FELLOW HUMAN.