Probably should’ve just asked Wolfram Alpha

  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    I think thats an issue with AI, it has been so much trained on complex questions that now when you ask a simple one, it mistakes it for a complex one and answers it that way

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      1 hour ago

      It’s auto-complete. It knows that “4” is the most common substring to follow “2 + 2” in its training. It’s not actually doing addition.

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      3 hours ago

      The issue is it’s an LLM. It puts words in an order that’s statistically plausible but has no reasoning power.