Saturday, November 30, 2024
Artificial Stupidity
On Google, I searched for stolidius saxum, and this "AI Overview" appeared at the top of the search results:
I was hoping to get back Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1024:
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The Latin phrase stolidius saxum translates to "stone of the stolid"
nullum est hoc stolidius saxum.In Wolfgang de Melo's translation:
No stone is more stupid than him.Or, if we take the sentence out of context and let the pronoun hoc refer to artificial intelligence:
No stone is more stupid than it.See A. Otto, Die Sprichwörter und sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der Römer (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), pp. 185-186, number 912.
