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AI is not an "oracle" no matter how much Altman and Amodei claim it is.
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No. Explain.
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Tools are things that you 100 percent control based on nothing but your own skill.

Oracles are things that give you free stuff if you've been a good boy and respected the oracle's rituals.

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So if I sample a guitar because I don't know how to play the guitar, is the tool I used to sample it "an oracle"?
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Tool was a kind of metal/funk band (or something like that) and Oracle is a database (management system) that somehow made a lot of money for a lot of consultants (and the oligarch owners) even though open source alternatives were far superior.
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