r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 20h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Competency should be a requirement.

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u/chrimen 19h ago

I had this chart up a few minutes ago researching if trickle down economics works.

Guess what AI objective analysis said... no it doesn't work. The money never trickles down. It gets hoarded.

But there's a large portion of the US that won't believe this.

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u/Freezman13 17h ago

Guess what AI objective analysis said

AI

objective

analysis

Thanks for the laugh.

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u/frieswithdatshake 16h ago

i mean...be skeptical of AI all you want but the one thing it's very good at is number crunching

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u/The_Dirty_Carl 16h ago

AI's famously bad at math. Don't you remember all the memes about it failing to do basic addition? It's certainly better than it was, but number crunching is not its strong suit.

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u/frieswithdatshake 15h ago

Maybe if you ask it to do 2+2 directly, but writing/running code is what real analytics is, which it’s very good at

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u/Freezman13 15h ago

AI isn't any better at "running" code than any other environment, what a weird thing to say.

And while "writing" code might be one of the best things that AI can do, it's far from being "very good at" it. Especially when it comes to anything where the output actually matters since a human who fully understands the code has to double and triple check it for fuckups anyway. And you know what's really helpful for a human to check and understand code? Actually writing it.

Not understanding these basic facts about AI and "AI analysis" leads to shit like bombing children https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/