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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago

The site describes CalcGPT as an art installation

As a critique of AI, it probably is pretty effective - no better way of mocking ChatGPT than by having it fuck up basic arithmetic that even a five-year-old can do.

You wanna mock somebody, it helps tricking them into mocking themselves.

[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

it cannot handle subtraction going negative

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let's just say that negative numbers remains a mystery for LLMs.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

as you know, number go up

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

My favorite part is that as with all LLM solutions it either spits out the correct answer or absolute nonsense. This calculator will never have a floating point error or screw up the order of operations, but it will sometimes decide that 2+2 equals "either 5 or 4.0000354, depending on how you measure it" even on the minimally-spicy settings.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago

Everybody knows LLMs aren't intended for use cases where a correct answer is expected. /s maybe idk

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago

Lol that regenerate button on a calculator. Amazing.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

someone should race this against those mega minecraft calculators, there’s probably a youtube video worth watching