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by kordlessagain 1055 days ago
And again, people think they’ve fooled a generative model by forcing it to do calculations in English when allowing it to write code is way more reasonable and accurate. That this is “news” or interesting is laughable.
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Well, it is arguable that it is "laughable" that there is a strong push to try and regulate/contain these systems to avoid human extinction when they can't tell you the number of weekdays in a month (and fail in this manner).

I'm no AI skeptic (and am aware the above does not seem to apply to GPT4), but the general point stands - finding these limitations is an interesting endeavor, and when they're particularly severe or unexpected, newsworthy.

If LLMs cause most 'well ackshually...' replies to be aimed at LLMs instead of humans, I think it's probably a small win for humanity. Let them have their smug satisfaction at outwitting some python code.