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ChatGPT can't even reliably tell how many times a letter is in a word. I doubt it will be a reliable tutor

• kolinko 4y ago
  When I tested it on subjects I knew, it gave better answers than teachers in my high school (Poland, but I guess it might be similar elsewhere in the West) Also, a friend physicist tested ChatGPT on the basics of quantum physics and he was surprised at how much it knew. IMHO the chat is at a level of 1st year university student - of any subject available. The only issue being that it always sounds super confident, even if it's wrong.
• rmbyrro 4y ago
  The ability to tell letter occurrence in a word is not a good measure for the quality of a large language model.
• chiefalchemist 4y ago
  Anecdotally, it's less reliable when it comes to verifiable fact; but highly useful for brainstorming and sussing out creative solution. Your results may vary.
• danuker 4y ago
  The public school system in my country still teaches that the tongue has areas sensitive to specific tastes.
• alpaca128 4y ago
  If a tutor tried to teach how to count letters instead of a useful skill I'd fire them. Natural language is ambiguous and ChatGPT can handle that pretty well, if you want to count letters use Python or something.
• xp84 4y ago
  That, and the thousands of numbskulls who waste their time trying to get ChatGPT to do math problems that a $1 calculator (or worst case, free Google Sheets) could do, is the most pointless waste of computing power, and I say this as someone who remembers Flash ads. If you really are staring at strings and wanting those letters counted, you can easily ask it to write you a Python, JS, Ruby program that will do so, and in my experience for a task like that it will NAIL that task perfectly 100% of the time, and can even explain how it works to boot!