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It has been surprisingly terrible at this for me, lately. I had a pretty simple list, which was a list of monthly expenses in a separate list, like this. Groce

It has been surprisingly terrible at this for me, lately. I had a pretty simple list, which was a list of monthly expenses in a separate list, like this. Groceries - 200 Phone bill - 70 I just wanted it to add these expenses up. Exactly the type of thing it should be good at. New conversation with no context. It could not do it. I wrestled with it for a long time. It kept "correcting" itself to another wrong answer. Eventually I reported it and the report recommended the correct answer.

travisjungroth 4y ago
It’s not good at math. It can do stuff sometimes, and you can easily teach it to use a calculator. What’s similar that it would be good at is extracting what you bought and turn it into a list and formula. [Me] Extract the list of things that I bought and their prices. Write a shell command to figure out how much I spent. I spent 200 on groceries and paid my 70 phone bill. I was going to buy three pairs of pants that were $40 each. I didn’t like the colors. I bought a t shirt for thirty. And I did end up buying one pair of pants. But it was 5 dollars more than those other ones. And I bought bag of tea for every day next year, they were a quarter each. [ChatGPT] List of things bought and their prices: Groceries: $200 Phone bill: $70 T-shirt: $30 One pair of pants: $45 Bag of tea: $0.25 To figure out how much was spent, you can use the following shell command: echo $((200 + 70 + 30 + 45 + 365*0.25)) This command will add up the prices of all the items, including the bag of tea for every day next year. The output will be the total amount spent.