• ganymede@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    the other wonderful irony?

    (basically) the only thing a computer can do is math.

    so it’s doing a SHITLOAD of math, to do a terrible job, at doing some very basic math.

    bravo!

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      8 days ago

      Not only that: it’s also super inefficient, orders of magnitude more compute-intensive

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      Yup. Look up the calculus and linear algebra that neural networks use to train. It’s an insane amount of calculations. So many calculations that it requires hundreds of processing units to crunch at a reasonable speeds. All that to get simple math questions wrong.

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    Finally, after decades of research, we created a computer that can’t do math. Alan Turing would be proud.

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      Come to think of it, being frequently wrong but nevertheless overly confident is key to passing the Turing test.

      We have finally created machines that can replicate human stupidity.

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    I bet we could save a few gajillion watts if we just put that through an if statement. If math, then just be a calculator Else, make some bullshit up.

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      Apparently that’s the new way to do math in AI. The AI works out you’re trying to do math, tries to write some Python code to do the math, runs the python codes, gets the answer, writes a response around the numeric answer.

      I can’t think of any possible issues with this; it’s infallible. /s