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I love to show that kind of shit to AI boosters. (In case you're wondering, the numbers were chosen randomly and the answer is incorrect).

They go waaa waaa its not a calculator, and then I can point out that it got the leading 6 digits and the last digit correct, which is a lot better than it did on the "softer" parts of the test.

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[–] diz@awful.systems 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Still seems terminally AI pilled to me, an iteration or two later. "5 digit multiplication is borderline", how is that useful?

I think there's a combination of it being a pinnacle of billions and billions of dollars, and probably theirs firing people for slightest signs of AI skepticism. There's another data point, "reasoning math & code" is released as stable by Google without anyone checking if it can do any kind of math.

edit: imagine that a calculator manufacturer in 1970s is so excited about microprocessors they release an advanced scientific calculator that can't multiply two 6 digit numbers (while their earlier discrete component model could). Outside the crypto sphere, that sort of insanity is new.