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# "Can you melt eggs?" is an allegory of our AI hype cycle times.

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## Summary

Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result. The answer to "can you melt an egg?" was pulled from an AI-generated answer on Quora. It's worth noting that the accuracy of Google's Featured Snippet results can be questionable even without AI.

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**@christopherno1** · 0 upvotes

> Maybe Quora's AI is up to something?
> But seriously, a model can not be measured by one wrong answer or another. We can probably get unusual answers from every model out there...

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