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This would be an amazing build, but holy moly!!

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PaulR:
I use AI quite a bit and find it a very useful tool but it does generate some fanciful results. One of the most useful feats it has performed for me is to take one of my documents (around 20 A4 pages of research) and create a chronology of events with one sentence summaries formatted into a table to my specification. The results were very impressive, fast and accurate. So I'd have to say it's great at sorting facts (I tested ChatGPT and Claude with similar results).

I regularly ask it to perform web searches for niche historical facts with sources. When I follow up on the quoted sources I often find it has conflated information found on a single webpage or document to create what Trump's spokeswoman once called 'alternative facts'. Once the error of its ways are pointed out it will either find a true source or more often admit that it made a mistake. Nevertheless is can provide leads and carry out searches much quicker and with more versatility than I could.

The third use I've found is to check and expand upon my calculations. For example, I worked out how many house-bricks could be made from a yard-deep layer of clay dug from two pits measuring 70x30 yards (for an archaeological dig I'm working on). The answer came out the same as mine but it was able to instantly adjust the results for various volumes of pebbles included and various percentages of shrinkage from firing, providing tables for both. Very handy.

All in all I'd say it's a very useful tool but the 'facts' it presents should always be checked against other reliable sources. The worst aspect for me is the fawning nature of its interactions: "What a perceptive question!", "That's a very insightful proposition", "You clearly have a deep understanding of the subject" etc etc. Makes me feel queasy!!

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