You said "Over half the time I have given a query to Gemini it has returned an incorrect result."
That caused me to wonder: How often would Gemini return a correct result if I were to give it an incorrect query?
BTW, you might find the following paper from 1977 to be illuminating or amusing:
How Artificial Is Intelligence? The great works of literature and art are not merely rare statistical fluctuations, but are they simply the products of correlation matrices?
Author(s): W. R. Bennett Jr.
Source: American Scientist , November-December 1977, Vol. 65, No. 6 (November-December 1977), pp. 694-702
Published by: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27848169
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27848169
#ai
Karl Auerbach
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