SirDrawsALot
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May 17, 2025 3:36 AM
SirDrawsALot
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glovelyday
"Americans will always do the right fhing...after they have tried everything else first. --- Winston Churchill
Wor3q
Is that a bait or something? Or did LLM do the math?
SirDrawsALot
Yes, I had LLM do the math (Microsoft Copilot). Another sharp eyed viewer here has pointed out that the math is WRONG. I went back to check and I did copy it correctly, but good ol’ AI got the arithmetic wrong and I failed to notice! Unreal.
Cavalrysword
4474 + 2651 = 7125 So while 8647 is the right answer, not to this math problem.
SirDrawsALot
You might be amused to know that I went back to Copilot, the query and its last answer was still there. I told it the answer was wrong and it says “yeah, you’re right, I got it wrong, let me redo it,” and proceeded to produce another wrong answer. We iterated this four times. So I finally just asked it if the difference between the result of the last operation and the desired result was zero, it says no, it’s not, let me fix that, and proceeds to spit out something much worse. Wow!
Cavalrysword
That reminds me of the early IBM personal computers that had a problem with the math chip. 2 + 2 equaled 3.98something or other. WTF???? That was no way to do business.
SirDrawsALot
Good freakin’ eye! It’s not even close! This is classic, as I derived this from multiple queries to Microsoft Copilot to back-solve to the desired result and copied it assiduously, assuming that surely AI is going to be able to totally and reliably perform such straightforward arithmetic. A lesson learned! I still have the output and I’ve gone back to review it. My copying was perfect. The math it produced is WRONG. I should have noticed it, too! 🤦♂️
Cavalrysword
Just by looking at the ones place it jumped out at me. 1 + 4 is 5, not 7. But I'm one of those people that does math in my head. There's a great book out called innumeracy. It's an older book, but well worth the read. It's like illiteracy but with numbers.