I know this is a meme, but for the record math is one of the things LLMs are famously worst at
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Can confirm; I teach statistics and allow take home exams. I don't even really need guardrails on the math-- if you cheat via LLM, your answer is almost always hilariously wrong.
I've not used gpt for quite a while, but can't you ask to python script the evaluation?
For simple math that could work, and as long as the question is close enough to an exact match with plenty of published examples to copy.
A good rule of thumb is that the script it will come up with is about as likely to be correct as blindly taking the highest voted answer to the most similar question on Stack Overflow.
If the question is simple and common, the odds are quite good. If the question is nuanced or rare, the odds of a correct result drop off aggressively.
Yesterday I literally had to count 14 thousand pounds of fire extinguishers (as in count each extinguisher in a bunch of crates), one of my coworkers came over and said "Why don't you just use AI to count them." They then pulled out their phone, took a picture, asked AI to count them, and was off buy almost 60% on the first crate. Then went "oh, well that's just one example,"
They then tried 4 more times, being between 75% and 50% off each time. They then went "Oh, well, ummm, nevermind." and wandered off again.
(I had to count the extinguishers to make a Bill of Lading for them for shipping them out, you need an accurate count otherwise it will be held by the shipping company until you provide a correct BoL with the correct count due to legal reasons. I couldn't just weigh them and divide the total wieght by the weight of a single extinguisher as they were a bunch of different sizes mixed together. NGL it was the easiest money I've ever made at the at job.)
$10 says they still think AI is great at counting things.
NGL it was the easiest money I've ever made at the at job
Easy money for you. For me that work would have been torture.
Oh it sucked for sure, I kept getting interrupted which meant whatever crate I was counting at the time had to be started over.
But the biggest perk was not having to deal with the other idiots on our loading dock for the entire time I was counting.
Though I've joked about it in the past I really should get a shirt that says "I'm trying to focus on my job, please don't distract me" or something like that.
A bidet, you should buy a bidet.
And use a calculator ffs it comes free with whatever device you’re using to ask a chatbot.
How do I type the prompt on the calculator?? I can only type numbers???
Heehee you can type words, like
8008135
:D
I think you mean 5318008
😏
People have to know how to create the math problem then. Schools are really falling down here
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Poop at work, get paid while pooping and use free tp.
Their tp is all scratchy and thin though...
Fold it 35 times
And now you have 35 papercuts and shit on your hand
I shit and shower at work, not simultaneously though
Tap for spoiler
most of the time
Gotta stomp those spicy nuggets away. Then wash your shit-caked feet.
This man showershits
Better to shower shit than shit showers.
Edit: fuck, I should have said "better to shit in the shower than shower in the shit", that would have been way better.
It's not too late to edit it, I haven't read it yet
I just got into a little spat with my friends fiance because she intellectually offloads with AI.
I stand by it.
The number of people I know who now ask AI instead of web searching is... very upsetting.
Doesn't help that web search is shit nowadays
That might be intentional and also coz of the shitty ai blog/info sites
100% it is barely usable now I gave Kagi a few tries and was really impressed by how good and sane the results are but I cannot get myself to hand out more money to an American company.
I should add that they are what's called a Public Benefit Corporation now so there is so effort coming from them.
In the case of Google it is very much intentional, and documented. Good search means fewer search attempts and that means fewer displayed ads.
If you search Google just serves you their AI shit. The other day their AI told me the word "rainy" has 4 letters.
It's does have 4 letters. It has 5 letters too.
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Yesterday I googled: Hardware store "City Name". It only returned stores from a different city. So I googled: Hardware store "City Name City Name City Name" and it returned a single one for every result
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Its extra fucked because the sheer amount of money ppl at the top have now, like the gap is getting bigger and bigger, why is everyone still broke, how do they benefit from ppl not buying things, like my walmart is full of expired sht all the time now, way less traffix
Two ply 70¢ / (330/2) = 0.42 ¢
Three ply 120¢ / 300 = 0.4 ¢
Basically the same.
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