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Why AI is still dumb and not scary at all (pt. 1)

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63 points tejonutella | 3 comments | 08 Mar 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.004s | source
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Herring ◴[08 Mar 25 22:23 UTC] No.43304125[source]▶
I’m pretty sure you couldn’t trust me to multiply 20-digit numbers either.
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1. asadotzler ◴[08 Mar 25 22:48 UTC] No.43304290[source]▶
But you could trust a $3 drug-store checkout isle slim wallet calculator (with solar panels for recharging) to perform those calculations and you'd get more nines of reliability from that calculator than the LLM. And it didn't cost hundreds of billions of dollars to develop the calculator, so you won't end up paying thousands of dollars for it.

That LLMs cannot beat a $3 calculator is because they're not fit for purpose. Everything they offer is a hallucination. Just because that fabrication matches with reality some of the time does not make it good. Reliability matters and these things just don't have it.

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2. jdietrich ◴[08 Mar 25 22:54 UTC] No.43304327[source]▶
If you think an LLM is unfit for purpose, try getting a calculator to write poetry.
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3. evandrofisico ◴[09 Mar 25 12:05 UTC] No.43308367[source]▶
Nobody is trying to get 7 TRILIONS of dollars investment on calculators being capable of doing any task, but OpenAI swears to god that any day soon their language model will became a general intelligence capable of doing all things, including math.