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Permanut

(7,782 posts) Fri Nov 21, 2025, 01:04 AM Yesterday

Artificial Intelligence?

I inquired in Google about how much paint would be needed to paint an 800 square foot apartment.

The answer provided by AI was 2 gallons, since a gallon of paint will cover about 400 square feet.

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Artificial Intelligence? (Original Post) Permanut Yesterday OP

It's the area of the walls that matter. PoindexterOglethorpe Yesterday #1

Zackly. Permanut Yesterday #2

Search query was incomplete. cachukis Yesterday #3

AI should have said so. Permanut 19 hrs ago #4

AI is not psychic yet...nt Wounded Bear 19 hrs ago #5

We are doomed. snot 15 hrs ago #6

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,348 posts)

1. It's the area of the walls that matter.

Reply to Permanut (Original post)

Fri Nov 21, 2025, 01:28 AM

Yesterday

And even a human cannot begin to guess the wall area of an 800 square foot apartment.

Dumb question. Not enough information or values. Sort of asking "what do one and something else add up to?"