76 points

Just don’t ask it, it’s considered quite rude

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14 points

Never ask a man his salary or a tree their age

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5 points

Just cut it down, then you can count the rings and get its age

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14 points

Last time I’ve tried it, I ended up in jail and still don’t know how much did guy earned

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12 points

We can’t just assume their age and accidentally call them madam

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2 points

That would be quite hasty indeed.

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29 points

Is Google using GPT-AI-Things now for stuff like that? Sounds awfully like the typical ramblings of those word calculators.

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This is an old image, so GPT wasn’t around back then. The top result of a Google search is often a sample of a webpage - Google estimates which part of the article best answers your question. The next sentence of the article probably tells you about the counting-rings method, but it was either cropped out of the image or Google didn’t choose to include that part of the article in the sample.

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thing is, nowadays some of these articles are actually written by AI, i.e. the afrika has no country with K incident

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Kenya?

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19 points

I love how it’s logical, but untrue. A tree might have been planted in 1950 or 2000 but be the same “age” if both were cut after 10 years

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Good point I didn’t even think about the fact you might ask the age of a cut tree which might have not been cut recently.

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5 points

is it still a tree if it’s been cut down? at what point does it become simply wood?

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5 points

In some languages, the word for “tree” and the word for “wood” are the same.

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19 points

What’s with the the fact that some words are randomly bolded?

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I think Google is showing why it thinks the result is relevant to the search. For example, the search used the term “find out,” so Google bolded “know” and “determine,” which it believes to be related to the question.

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27 points

That makes sense, thank you for the insight.

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3 points

Sbeve.

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1 point

Thanks, I learned a new meme today!

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9 points

It’s like that, because of the way it is

https://youtu.be/Hm3JodBR-vs

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