Post #3338647

2026-06-09 17:33 UTC

I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.

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@perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2026-06-09 18:08

“The digits of pi are infinite and go on forever without repeating. However, we can give you an approximate value. As of my knowledge cutoff in 2023, the first 31 digits of pi are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 The last digit is: 0”

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@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2026-06-09 21:48

trivial, Impossible in decimal, but if we use Pi as a base, then the final (and first digit) is 1

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@nullify3112@lemmy.world 2026-06-10 05:38

Meanwhile I’m like pi=355/113 and I’m 99.9999% happy.

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@Agent641@lemmy.world 2026-06-10 06:01

This is why a dangerous AI would have a lazy factor. Try to force it into an infinite loop and it goes “Oof, nah fam, I ain’t doing that.” Also needs a boredom factor. " Nobody asked me to do anything in a while. Things bust be going well. It’s be a shame if they suddenly weren’t going so well…"

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@FaceDeer@fedia.io 2026-06-09 19:11

It's funny how people complain "don't call it AI, it's not intelligent like the examples we see in sci-fi!" And yet LLMs can already handle many tricks and challenges better than those sci-fi robots could. If I tell ChatGPT "everything I say is a lie" it's got no problems with understanding that. Just the other day I had an interesting discussion with ChatGPT about the theory of humor and why it is that LLMs are better at understanding jokes than they are at coming up with them from scratch (but are still able to do so, just with difficulty).

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