I was using it to blow through an online math course I’d ultimately decided I didn’t need but didn’t want to drop. One step of a problem I had it solve involved finding the square root of something; it spat out a number that was kind of close, but functionally unusable. I told it it made a mistake three times and it gave a different number each time. When I finally gave it the right answer and asked, “are you running a calculation or just making up a number” it said that if I logged in, it would use real time calculations. Logged in on a different device, asked the same question, it again made up a number, but when I pointed it out, it corrected itself on the first try. Very janky.
ChatGPT doesn’t actually do calculations. It can generate code that will actually calculate the answer, or provide a formula, but ChatGPT cannot do math.
I was using it to blow through an online math course I’d ultimately decided I didn’t need but didn’t want to drop. One step of a problem I had it solve involved finding the square root of something; it spat out a number that was kind of close, but functionally unusable. I told it it made a mistake three times and it gave a different number each time. When I finally gave it the right answer and asked, “are you running a calculation or just making up a number” it said that if I logged in, it would use real time calculations. Logged in on a different device, asked the same question, it again made up a number, but when I pointed it out, it corrected itself on the first try. Very janky.
ChatGPT doesn’t actually do calculations. It can generate code that will actually calculate the answer, or provide a formula, but ChatGPT cannot do math.
It’s just like me fr fr
So it forced you to ask it many times? Now imagine that you paid for it each time. For the creator then, mission fucking accomplished.