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Here's a good one for you: "Explain the double slit experiment which way variation"

If they say anything about leaving two straight lines, then it fails. Just tried Gemini, and it failed.

This is an extremely common misconception that has spread all throughout the internet, and so it is baked into the training data. The real answer is that there are multiple ways to do which way double slit experiments, but Einstein's thought experiment proves it's impossible for any of them have an interference pattern, as that would violate Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle.

Somehow, not leaving an interference pattern became twisted into leaving a specific pattern of two lines, which then falsely implies that quantum objects lose their quantum behavior in certain circumstances. The field of quantum physics becomes so much simpler to understand once you realize that all of this is hogwash.

The best reference I can find for where this myth started is a documentary about quantum physics that tries to connect it with mysticism. On the other hand, Wikipedia actually has it correct. In its "which way" section in the double slit experiment page, it correctly says "A well-known thought experiment predicts that if particle detectors are positioned at the slits, showing through which slit a photon goes, the interference pattern will disappear".

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What? What LLM were you using a decade ago? Am I misreading you?
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You might not be aware of it but GenAI predates OpenAI which was founded more than 10 years ago anyway.
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Of course I am aware, but how is this relevant today? How does that prove that the science is irrelevant and wasted?
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Did I say that the science is irrelevant and wasted?
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No. GenAI means LLMs right now. I agree it didnt in the past, but definitions change.
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