I'm very glad that Nature is calling attention to this important issue.
BUT....I really wish they had credited Annie Denton, an undergraduate student in our "Calling Bullshit" course, for uncovering the Rosy Wolf Snail example.
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@ct_bergstrom Both ChatGPT and GPT-4 compensate for Google by underestimating the Rosy Wolf Snail by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude. But the geometric mean is pretty close to the right answer!
This is proof that they're talking and AGI is here. Cross posting on Twitter now.
@ct_bergstrom Yeah, that joke didn't really work, did it? "I aim at the stars (but sometimes I hit London)"
@twitskeptic Wut???