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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (18 children)

From my experience with ChatGPT:

It will NEVER consistently give you only the value in the response. It will always eventually add in some introductory text like it’s talking to a human. No matter how many times I tried to get it to just give me back the answer alone, it never consistently did.
ChatGPT is terrible with numbers. It can’t count, do math, none of that. So asking it to do byte math is asking for a world of hurt.

If this isn’t joke code, that is scary.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

I refuse to believe you are not certain this is a joke

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I know it is, but I’ve also seen people try to use ChatGPT for similar things as a serious endeavor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Friendly reminder that CalcGPT exists

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Where's my 1 million dollars?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

how is it different from a calculator or say a Python REPL? i'm asking b/c i'm too old to try out young folks inefficiently engineered "solutions".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

have you ever wanted your calculator to be able to be wrong like a human?
Like, not just calculating the wrong answer or returning an error, i mean outright brainfart and just giving a nonsense answer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

You input some text, chatGPT guesses the answer using the linear algebra that powers LLMs