• danielbln@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s a language model, I don’t know why you would expect math. Tell it to output code to perform the math, that’ll work just fine.

    • triclops6@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      Then it should say so instead of attempting and failing at the one thing computers are supposed to be better than us at

      • danielbln@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        Well, if I try to use Photoshop to calculate a polynomial it’s not gonna work all that well either, right tool for the job and all.

        The fact that LLMs are terrible at knowing what they don’t know should be well known by now (ironically).

        • triclops6@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          And if Photoshop had a way to ask it for such, it’d be a mistake.

          Gpt thinking it knows something and hallucinating is ultimatelya bug, not a feature, no matter what the apologists say

    • focus@lemmy.filmEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      I know. It’s still baffling how much it messes up when adding two numbers.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        It’s not baffling at all… It’s a language model, not a math robot. It’s designed to write English sentences, not to solve math problems.

      • danielbln@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just asked GPT-4:

        What’s 7 * 8 divided by 10, to the power of 3?

        Its reply:

        Let’s break this down step by step:

        First, multiply 7 and 8 to get 56.

        Then, divide 56 by 10 to get 5.6.

        Finally, raise 5.6 to the power of 3 (5.6 * 5.6 * 5.6) to get 175.616.

        So, 7 * 8 divided by 10, to the power of 3 equals 175.616

        • focus@lemmy.filmEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’s pretty hit or miss though… I’ve had lots of good calculations with the odd wrong one sprinkled in, making it unreliable for doing maths. Mostly because it presents the result with absolute certainty.