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AI obviously has huge uses for tasks like examining photos. But ask believers in magic answers machines like that described above for Intel work two questions 1) Does the system alert you when one of the many databases you think it is consulting is offline (a much-vaunted system currently in use does not, leading to lots of false negatives); and 2) How many different ways can you spell "Mohamad" - can the system even cope with that level of complexity when sorting people?

When you show me AI via spell-check that can even cope with the proper use of possessive apostrophes and plurals in English, I will start trusting it for harder questions.

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Have you tried using GPT-4?

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Hi M, I'm curious if you've tried using some of the latest large language models released over the past year, such as GPT-4? I've found that it pretty consistently understands use of possessive apostrophes vs. plurals (especially compared to the average human!).

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