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submitted 7 hours ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/tech@pawb.social

You might've noticed that ChatGPT — and AI in general — isn't good at math. There's a reason, and it has to do with how modern AI is built.

Basically, they're autocorrect on steroids. Which some of us have been saying for, like, ages.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 hours ago

There's zero ability to compute problems. Only statistical word salad. AI is a scam.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Why can't this person working on his linguist degree not able to do high level math? It's not their specialty.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 7 hours ago

To be fair, even someone with a linguist degree knows basic math. GPT can't even get that right. That's the biggest problem (and red flag).

[-] Zexks@lemmy.world 2 points 43 minutes ago

It can absolutely do basic math. Give us a ‘basic’ math question that it can’t solve.

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Autocorrect that can program?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Programming languages are structured and have rigid syntax that fits well in a LLM model, so it spitting out working code for simple things is like having a sentence that is structured like a normal person.

The code might not do what you are actually trying to do, or might work while being inefficient, even if it runs.

[-] Zexks@lemmy.world 0 points 42 minutes ago

Both of those are user issues.

this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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