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.

  • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

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

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      13 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).

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      12 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.