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People who understand where the problem comes from know to ignore it and understand the irony of the naming. Others have a few seconds of fun. The problem and s
by viraptor 2y ago
People who understand where the problem comes from know to ignore it and understand the irony of the naming. Others have a few seconds of fun. The problem and solving it is almost irrelevant.
- paxys 2y agoAn AI that people consider to be AGI, or at least on a path to AGI, not being able to count the number of letters in a word is "almost irrelevant"?
- viraptor 2y agoYes. Nobody is seriously going to ask the system to count letters in a word they just typed. It could be interesting for crosswords and similar things, but adding "use python" solves those already. Bringing up the strawberry is like saying: "people consider computers to be great at dealing with numbers, but they can't even add 0.1 and 0.2 correctly". You learn about this limitation once, understand how to deal with it, get on with your life.
- paxys 2y ago"Nobody is seriously going to..." People will throw any problem at it they want to. That's the entire point of general intelligence.
- lupire 2y agoAnswering simple computational questions correctly is not almost irrelevant.
- viraptor 2y agoIf the question is simpler than any reasonable usecase, then it's basically irrelevant. It's as irrelevant as asking a math genius what's 1+1 and getting answer "a bazillion". Was it wrong - yes. Was everyone's time wasted - also yes. Openai people know this is something models don't answer right. And they barely care to attempt fixing it - it's basically a joke at this point. But it's irrelevant because nobody pays OpenAI to ask about spelling of words they just typed. If they actually had that need, then "use python" or similar approaches work just fine. The model could be also taught to call a function to get the token-to-spelling mapping it needed.
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoRight, I also thought that was a strange take.