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> I asked ChatGPT and Claude how much my patent would have been worth

LLMs, on their own, can't really math.



Did you try it?


Alice: "So I asked my Magic 8-Ball and it said..."

Bob: "You shouldn't do that. Those don't function in a reliable way."

Alice: "... But have you tried one?"

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The fact that you're appealing to the faux-authority of chatbots suggests you didn't do anything to verify the what-if prediction as plausible. If you had, that process would've given you something much more convincing to use.


I can’t come to bed yet hon. Someone on the internet is wrong!




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