Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result
Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result
Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.
Speed running our way to “electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!” I see … if you know, you know.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho did seem more entertaining at least then the circus we’ve had for the last few years. At least we can look forward to that?
Plus Ow! My balls! Does seem like some good tv.
You can melt anything. An egg will burn first. Then you will get some type of rendered carbon ash. Which will, eventually, melt and/or vaporize with enough heat.
I would argue that it's no longer 'egg' once it's carbon ash and therefore never melted before it's existence ended.
Which came first, the egg or the time dilation of carbon atoms?
Melting is a physical process that changes the form and aggregation state of a thing, but it still remains that thing. Melted gold is still gold, for example.
Burning on the other hand is a chemical process that leads to new "things". The egg isn't longer an egg.
Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn't have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?
If I simply ask "can eggs melt" and the answer is complicated but still yes, I would hope it to explain the complications and not just say yes. But I mean, if I just wanted a yes or no answer, and it's technically correct, I'm cool with that. I could always follow up with "how" if the simple answer doesn't satisfy me.
Eggs are primarily comprised of colloidal suspension.
Colloids cannot melt, as they are not in a solid phase
Only the yolk.
But then you're melting carbon ash and not eggs.
Which raises an interesting question: what if you cooked it in a zero oxygen environment (say argon, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide... basically welding gases because they're mostly inert). I can't burn in that context, so does it melt? Or do you drive off all the volatiles and are just left with carbon anyway?
If you heat carbon based stuff without oxygen a process called pyrolysis happens. It separates the components into their molecules and molecules into smaller molecules with less weight. During this process you can gain different materials.
Not sure what kind of products are possible with the pyrolysis of egg + welding gases though lol
If you heat carbon in a vacuum (via radiation) you can get melted carbon!
Note to self: try this.
In an inert atmosphere under enough pressure pretty much anything can melt without burning.
This is the correct answer. In a vaccum wood won't burn for instance. It will melt, and even sublimate.
An egg is already liquid, so it can't be molten. It's the same way you can't melt water.
well it's referencing this article now
Somebody needs to write an article about that article that states the opposite
Take frozen egg. Melt. Repeat as needed.
Thawing isn’t always melting.
Doesn't everything technically have a melting point?
No, carbon, among lot's of materials, goes directly into sublimation stage. It has no liquid form.
Even carbon can be a liquid in extreme conditions.
Yes but we generally don't want AI to answer questions like evil genies.
AI was gifted to us as a wish granted by a Monkey's Paw. It can answer all of life's questions... but incorrectly.
Honestly the best analogy for AI I've seen.
Yep, also id argue eggs are 'melted' by default, but if you froze and the reheated the egg it would then melt.
can't wait till more LLMs and content generators get trained on this garbage data and repeat it all over the internet ad inifinitum.
Truly the best future.
Had a friend open a conversation line by referencing something on Quora and I immediately tuned out. Quora is a wealth of nonsense.
Even when Quora isn't being ruined with AI, it's flooded with Neo-Nazis that are self-proclaimed historians.
Wtf kind of quora are you reading to find neo Nazi shit? I just find people shilling crypto and bad tech advice.
I read a lot of world war two history, so search engines naturally shove such parts of Quora at me. Some are more subtle about being Neo-Nazis, but are defintely pushing the agenda.
It's right though.
https://www.livescience.com/49610-scientists-unboil-egg.html
Step 2: Add some water and urea
No thanks
Bear Grylls hates you rn
Damn, why didn't I think of that
I do sometimes “provide feedback” on terrible featured snippets, but goddamn does it feel like shouting into a void.
Ublacklist Firefox plugin.
Add quota Add pinterest
Make the internet a little less shit
You can find some blacklist subs on GitHub too if you want to blanket filter out a lot of the other shit (like alternative.to and other bulk targeted result sites)
They'll be taking over the world any day now, just you wait
Who knew the Abominable Intelligence is actually really, really dumb.
From my tests LLMs are only good at writing boring work emails, you should pretty much never trust any factual information they generate without verification.
They're amazing for so many things, coding and discovery especially - yes you need to verify answers but you were supposed to do that with Wikipedia and everything else anyway.
I mean at sufficient temperature that is possible, you can melt Carbon stuff.
You can freeze an egg and you can melting it again by putting it in a stove or microwave or just anything with temps above 0° C. Context matters and that human seems to blindly assume one specific context.
It's kind of ridiculous how we went from AI being mostly scifi and DeepDream, to every journalist expecting that AI has to be 100% correct all the time and be able to answer all the questions correctly. Of course AI will make mistakes when it was trained on incorrect data, that happens, that's what humans do all the time. AI stands for artificial intelligence, not magic.