I love to show that kind of shit to AI boosters. (In case you’re wondering, the numbers were chosen randomly and the answer is incorrect).
They go waaa waaa its not a calculator, and then I can point out that it got the leading 6 digits and the last digit correct, which is a lot better than it did on the “softer” parts of the test.
Try asking my question to Google gemini a bunch of times, sometimes it gets it right, sometimes it doesn’t. Seems to be about 50/50 but I quickly ran out of free access.
And google is planning to replace their search (which includes a working calculator) with this stuff. So it is absolutely the case that there’s a plan to replace one of the world’s most popular calculators, if not the most popular, with it.
Also, a lawnmower is unlikely to say: “Sure, I am happy to take you to work” and “I am satisfied with my performance” afterwards. That’s why I sometimes find these bots’ pretentious demeanor worse than their functional shortcomings.
“Pretentious” is a trait expressed by something that’s thinking. These are the most likely words that best fit the context. Your emotional engagement with this technology is weird
let me just slip the shades on real quick
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oh so we’ve reached the gaslighting phase of the product life have we
Pretentious is a fine description of the writing style. Which actual humans fine tune.
Given that the LLMs typically have a system prompt that specifies a particular tone for the output, I think pretentious is an absolutely valid and accurate word to use.
Also, these bots have been deliberately fine-tuned in a way that is supposed to sound human. Sometimes, as a consequence, I find it difficult to describe their answering style without employing vocabulary used to describe human behavior. Also, I strongly suspect that this deliberate “human-like” style is a key reason for the current AI hype. It is why many people appear to excuse the bots’ huge shortcomings. It is funny to be accused of being “emotional” when pointing out these patterns as problematic.