Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.
well it’s referencing this article now
Somebody needs to write an article about that article that states the opposite
You can melt anything. An egg will burn first. Then you will get some type of rendered carbon ash. Which will, eventually, melt and/or vaporize with enough heat.
Melting is a physical process that changes the form and aggregation state of a thing, but it still remains that thing. Melted gold is still gold, for example.
Burning on the other hand is a chemical process that leads to new “things”. The egg isn’t longer an egg.
You’re comparing an element to a hyper complex concept (not even a structure).
If you don’t agree with him, then you’re saying butter doesn’t melt.
Water isn’t an element, but it still adheres to these rules.
I would argue that it’s no longer ‘egg’ once it’s carbon ash and therefore never melted before it’s existence ended.
Which came first, the egg or the time dilation of carbon atoms?
Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn’t have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?
If I simply ask “can eggs melt” and the answer is complicated but still yes, I would hope it to explain the complications and not just say yes. But I mean, if I just wanted a yes or no answer, and it’s technically correct, I’m cool with that. I could always follow up with “how” if the simple answer doesn’t satisfy me.
Well, I agree. But what I mean is that when people ask physics questions, it is often implicitly understood to mean under current conditions. You rarely hear normal people or kids (who I find asks most of the physics question) include anything about frictionless vacuums in the question. (For reference: https://xkcd.com/669/ ). So, for the egg question, regular people would most likely consider the answer to be “No, except under very special circumstances”. But, I agree with you that if a simple Yes/No answer is expected, it have to be Yes.
Wouldn’t that be true for everything then? 3,400C is pretty special circumstances in my book, yet we say tungsten melts.
I don’t think adding heat is a special circumstance like adding pressure is. It’s very easy to add heat to something. Adding pressure means building a sealed environment to enclose it’s, and some specialized equipment to increase the pressure.
Adding heat requires that you burn something. That’s it.
Yes, you have a point. However adding heat is often implicit when talking about melting stuff. However, if it requires 3400C, then the answer would probably include a comment about that.
In an inert atmosphere under enough pressure pretty much anything can melt without burning.
This is the correct answer. In a vaccum wood won’t burn for instance. It will melt, and even sublimate.
Which raises an interesting question: what if you cooked it in a zero oxygen environment (say argon, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide… basically welding gases because they’re mostly inert). I can’t burn in that context, so does it melt? Or do you drive off all the volatiles and are just left with carbon anyway?
If you heat carbon based stuff without oxygen a process called pyrolysis happens. It separates the components into their molecules and molecules into smaller molecules with less weight. During this process you can gain different materials.
Not sure what kind of products are possible with the pyrolysis of egg + welding gases though lol
If you heat carbon in a vacuum (via radiation) you can get melted carbon!
If you heat carbon in a vacuum, it sublimates straight to gas. If you heat it under extreme pressure in an inert gas atmosphere, then it can melt. Unfortunately creating such pressures in the lab is only possible with diamond anvil presses, which are themselves carbon and thus tend to sublimate from the heat, resulting in pressure vessel failure. Doing the experiment on the surface of a neutron star would work, but presents some other difficulties.
Note to self: try this.
An egg is already liquid, so it can’t be molten. It’s the same way you can’t melt water.
Doesn’t everything technically have a melting point?
No, carbon, among lot’s of materials, goes directly into sublimation stage. It has no liquid form.
Even carbon can be a liquid in extreme conditions.
Ok, oversaw the ‘technically’.
Yes but we generally don’t want AI to answer questions like evil genies.
AI was gifted to us as a wish granted by a Monkey’s Paw. It can answer all of life’s questions… but incorrectly.
Honestly the best analogy for AI I’ve seen.
Yep, also id argue eggs are ‘melted’ by default, but if you froze and the reheated the egg it would then melt.
Had a friend open a conversation line by referencing something on Quora and I immediately tuned out. Quora is a wealth of nonsense.
When my daughter was 7 or 8 years old, I caught her answering questions on quora on topics that she knew nothing about. Something to keep in mind.
She’s probably more knowledgeable than their average user.
She was answering questions about ear piercings which she’d never had, but yes you’re probably right!
can’t wait till more LLMs and content generators get trained on this garbage data and repeat it all over the internet ad inifinitum.
Truly the best future.
Even when Quora isn’t being ruined with AI, it’s flooded with Neo-Nazis that are self-proclaimed historians.
Wtf kind of quora are you reading to find neo Nazi shit? I just find people shilling crypto and bad tech advice.
I read a lot of world war two history, so search engines naturally shove such parts of Quora at me. Some are more subtle about being Neo-Nazis, but are defintely pushing the agenda.
They do love to quote the Heritage Foundation
They’ll be taking over the world any day now, just you wait
Inb4 it’s 47d hyperchess to dumb down humans even more
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That human, you say? Are you perhaps also another AI?
I do sometimes “provide feedback” on terrible featured snippets, but goddamn does it feel like shouting into a void.
Who knew the Abominable Intelligence is actually really, really dumb.
From my tests LLMs are only good at writing boring work emails, you should pretty much never trust any factual information they generate without verification.
They’re amazing for so many things, coding and discovery especially - yes you need to verify answers but you were supposed to do that with Wikipedia and everything else anyway.
So it’s just like regular Quota then.
I mean at sufficient temperature that is possible, you can melt Carbon stuff.
