Aaron Toponce ⚛️Jul 16, 2024

Generative AI is garbage, exhibit 99:

#ai #math

Show threadBill Zaumen
@atoponce For the example - ChatGPT botching arithmetic - it actually passed the Turing test. Once in a store, I ordered 2.2 lb of some deli item, and the scale registered 2.02. The guy behind the counter called 2.20 "two point twenty" and 2.02 "two point two". The scale always showed two digits past the decimal point. This guy basically made the same mistake as ChatGPT.
Jul 16, 2024 at 5:35pmWeb
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Jul 16, 2024
@bzdev nah. don't antropomorphise a statistical engine.
Show threadJoe VinegarJul 18, 2024
@bzdev @atoponce well, the guy was omitting the "hundredths" in reading decimals, for short as it was always two decimal digits. That's not wrong at all, given the context, and also different from the error in chatgpt interaction.
Show threadBill ZaumenJul 18, 2024
@joe_vinegar @atoponce Not exactly: he called .02 "point 2" and .20 "point twenty", hence the confusion. As with the ChatGPT example, the problem was in part not realizing that there are an infinite number of implied zeros after the last digit provided.