Ask HN: Why not have people vote on one question for an AI to answer each day?

6 amichail 6 5/15/2025, 9:42:16 PM

Such an AI could devote massive computational resources to answering one question daily.

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romanhn · 9h ago

> How may entropy be reversed?

INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER

Source: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html)

brudgers · 9h ago

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

That is why.

dr_dshiv · 8h ago

OP, what’s your question?

andrewfromx · 10h ago

you can just copy paste any question you want into AI.

squigz · 8h ago

???????

To what end? It's not as though throwing computing power at 'questions' just solves problems.

bigyabai · 10h ago

1. Someone has to pay for it

2. It could still be wrong

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