[sarchertech]

And if chatGPT said “I don’t know the actual answer but my best guys is 15229” that would be a reasonable and potentially useful answer.

The fact that it gives you a number that isn’t rounded to the nearest tens, hundreds, or thousands place means that it doesn’t look like an approximation to any reasonable person, which makes it a terrible answer.

My younger brother used to have this problem. If you asked him a question like “how long until you get here”, he’d say “17 minutes”. What he really meant was “around 20 minutes”, but everyone thought he must know the exact time. Like he’d done the drive many times, or he was looking at his GPS.