• stoly@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Sure it does. It’s a calculator and can tell me if I did my statistics homework correctly. I can also ask it to summarize a concept I find difficult.

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      No, it actually doesn’t. How LLMs work is that it takes in written words and makes a sentence based on the likelihood of what the next word will be based on human readable text. That’s literally it.

      Hence, there’s absolutely no guarantee that ChatGPT’s ‘review’ of your homework will always be 100% correct because it is probable that the answer was written incorrectly in the billions of lines of text it has been fed.

      On the other hand, a calculator has been superficially wired for it’s purpose to process an input. 1 + 1 will always equal 2.

      I’d wager your supervisor will be horrified to learn that you’re getting an LLM to learn from rather than your peers. This is why i absolutely hate that it’s being used as a substitute what essentially makes us human: art, music, research, learning etc.

      It’s a tool that needs a licence because you need to know how to use it to complement your existing skills, not supplement it.

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      7 hours ago

      If you want a calculator, try an actual calculator or a website that actually does math like Wolfram alpha.

      A chatbot can’t actually do math. It can only give you an answer that looks right because it has no fundamental understanding of what “right” actually is.

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        3 hours ago

        How old are you and what doctorates do you have? Calling this 50yo naive with the 2 sentences of context is pretty wild.

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          How old are you and what doctorates do you have?

          We’re not in a dick-swinging contest here. At least I am not :) What a dumb way to deflect from the point I am making. If you have any understanding of the matter, you know that LLMs are only statistically accurate, and mathematically, that is useless.

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        5 hours ago

        I have a long, successful career. I am doing this program for personal growth and to create a challenge for myself. Please stop projecting your impressions on my life, I am my own person and very confident in what I have accomplished.

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          4 hours ago

          I am not objecting to you to learn something new. The naivety is what you display assuming you can use LLMs to “check your homework”.

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      9 hours ago

      until it hallucinates

      who the fuck wants a calculator that gives out the wring answer every 5th time